Basin Wide Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
330688147
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2019–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2018, Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Yucca Valley, CA, USA
Phone
7603657219
Rating
64
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Urban, Community Economic Development

Reported finances

Revenue
$47,384
Expenses
$59,058
Assets
$150,161
Liabilities
$421

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JENNIFER CUSACK (President)
  • PAUL HOFFMAN (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • JENNIFER CUSACK (President)
  • PAUL HOFFMAN (Vice President)
  • JEFF LITEL (Director)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Partner with individuals, non-profits and local governments to improve life and economic vitality in the morongo basin. Reaching out to the entire morongo basin seeking active opportunities to strengthen non-profit organizations by helping them achieve their goals.improving our quality of life.

What it reported doing in 2024

Reaching out to the entire morongo basin seeking active opportunities to strengthen non-profit organizations by helping them achieve their goals.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 44
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 35
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 47.8%; rating input score 48
  • Program expense ratio: 38.3%; rating input score 38

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -24.6%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.54; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 30%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -5.1% per year; rating input score 0; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -22.4% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -21.4% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 47.8% of revenue deployed · 38.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $23K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 48/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 38/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.