4Th Watch Educational Services
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 994695037
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Ontario, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9097290338
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Vocational, Technical Schools
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,443,793
- Expenses
- $2,025,743
- Assets
- $3,381,562
- Liabilities
- $1,584,095
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Danielle Skinner (President / CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Neeyah Francois (CFO): $102,058 total reported compensation
- Danielle Skinner (President / CEO): $99,286 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
4th Watch Educational Services, Inc., operating as Machinist Career College (MCC), is a nonprofit workforce development organization focused on preparing individuals for high-demand careers in precision manufacturing. MCC delivers industry-aligned training programs designed to create pathways to sustainable, living-wage employment for underserved populations, including low-income adults, veterans, and justice-impacted individuals.
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization operated a registered apprenticeship program in precision machining, providing hands-on training in CNC operations, blueprint reading, and Mastercam programming. The program served adult learners seeking entry into the manufacturing workforce and was delivered in partnership with employer organizations to support job placement and career advancement.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 94% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 84.4%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17.1%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.67; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.47; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.9%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 70% of revenue deployed · 84.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $102K · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 39 of 39 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 33/100.