Branches at the Carnegie
Legal name: Almostfreetoallinc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 874207071
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2023
- Location
- Auburn, CA, US
- Phone
- 9166809610
- Rating
- 43
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $234,058
- Expenses
- $88,849
- Assets
- $155,790
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ALEXIA RETALLACK (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ALEXIA RETALLACK (PRESIDENT)
- PHIL L'AMOUREAUX (VICE PRESIDE)
- ERIN COLLINS (SECRETARY)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To create a gracious center for the arts, culture, education and community events in the heart of Auburn, CA where adults and youth can experience art exhibits, enjoy a variety of music in an intimate venue, listen to fascinating presentations and join in multi-generational events.
What it reported doing in 2024
Branches at the carnegie- primary goal is to provide a venue for the auburn community with a reasonable usage cost that is affordable to all. We lease the historical carnegie library building and have coordinated the leasehold improvement plans for accessibilty for the disabled in compliance with the city of auburn to develop and implement the plan that will allow public use and to comply with ada access.
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 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 16
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 12
- Sustainability: 79
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 5.4%; rating input score 5
- Program expense ratio: 14.4%; rating input score 14
- Fundraising efficiency: $55.03 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 62%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.75; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 175% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 141.1% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 5.4% of revenue deployed · 14.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 6 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $13K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 5/100.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.