Bay Area Cultural Connections
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 300087775
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2020
- Location
- Santa Clara, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4087522965
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cultural, Ethnic Awareness
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,635,282
- Expenses
- $1,778,605
- Assets
- $1,982,907
- Liabilities
- $505,697
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Fatih Sarigoz (President)
- Oguzhan Cetinkaya (President (former))
- Kemal Erdagi (Executive Director (former))
- Yusuf Ozgen (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Camci Selcuk (Program coordinator): $101,004 total reported compensation
- Yusuf Ozgen (Executive Director): $100,534 total reported compensation
- Kemal Erdagi (Executive Director (former)): $57,190 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Organization is to serve humanity as a way of serving God, BayCC brings communities together through education, dialogue, and common good projects.
What it reported doing in 2024
Other programs/accomplishments during the year included winter and summer retreat conferences and camps for all ages; and weekend school activities that were carried out during 8 months of school season once per week.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 86% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 76% for direct work, and 24% for grants.
- 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: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 88
- Accountability: 86
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 59.9%; rating input score 60
- Program expense ratio: 88.6%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 96.9%; rating input score 97; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 32.5%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.11; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.26; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14.5%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.8% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 30.2% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 59.9% of revenue deployed · 88.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $101K · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 29 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 38/100.