American River Alano
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 943224987
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Orangevale, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9169557545
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alcohol, Drug Abuse, Treatment Only
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $70,486
- Expenses
- $64,210
- Assets
- $96,154
- Liabilities
- $327
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Steve Sarro (President)
- Tom Carty (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Steve Sarro (President)
- Tom Carty (Vice President)
- Linda Miller (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provide facilities for AA meetings
What it reported doing in 2025
To lease and/or purchase real property for the sole purpose of supporting nonprofit 12 Step groups & assure a meeting place is available for smaller 12 step groups.
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.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 97.4%; rating input score 97
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.9%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.5; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.5% per year; rating input score 0; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.1% per year; rating input score 0; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 89% of revenue deployed · 97.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $63K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.