Alano of Costa Mesa
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 952888293
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Costa Mesa, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9496468808
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alcohol, Drug Abuse, Treatment Only
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $157,590
- Expenses
- $138,048
- Assets
- $131,130
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JACOB R SANDOVAL (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
People named in this filing
- JACOB R SANDOVAL (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
- LEONORE GRIER SWAN (SECRETARY)
- JILLIAN THOMAS (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
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What it reported doing in 2025
A safe environment was provided to alcoholics to socialize before and after meetings. Thousands of people helped.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 94% 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.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and the available information about grant readiness state registration leaves an important question unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76.7%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 83%; rating input score 83
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 12.4%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.95; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 19.2% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.1% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 76.7% of revenue deployed · 83% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $115K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- Review — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization could not be resolved against the register, so the check is unfinished.