Beach Cities CAER
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 954508668
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- El Segundo, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4242252848
- Rating
- 97
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $77,000
- Expenses
- $85,897
- Assets
- $72,950
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Steve Faichney (Executive Director)
- Barbara Graham (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Steve Faichney (Executive Director)
- Barbara Graham (Vice President)
- Brandy Villaneuva (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
Beach Cities CAER (BCCAER) is a non-profit public benefit organization focused on providing a forum for increasing community awareness of the continuous improvement of coordinated fire department and industry emergency preparedness and response programs. BCCAER is a team of public agency emergency management officials, fire departments, schools, manufacturing industries, and chemical transporters in the South Bay region with the goal of enhancing public safety.
What it reported doing in 2025
Beach Cities CAER held six full group meetings in 2025, in addition to ad hoc subcommittee meetings, bringing together member companies, city and county fire departments, emergency management officials, and other public agencies to coordinate emergency preparedness and response efforts.- Throughout 2025, Beach Cities CAER members and invited speakers (including LA County Fire, city emergency management staff, industry representatives, and regional disaster coordinators) provided topical presentations addressing emergency response, wireless and public alert systems, hazardous materials regulations, incident command, and lessons learned from recent incidents.- During 2025, Beach Cities CAER reviewed approximately nine hazardous materials and major emergency incidents, including train derailments, facility fires, explosions, and other significant events, sharing media links and incident documentation so member agencies and companies could use the materials in ongoing training and preparedness programs. - Beach Cities CAER continued to update and enhance its website with new informational videos, current contact information, and preparedness resources to improve public access to emergency preparedness and refinery safety information.- Beach Cities CAER members conducted extensive outreach in 2025 through presentations and participation at the State of California CUPA conference, Contra Costa County Health Haz Mat, Torrance School District and PTA groups, the South Bay Council of Governments, the Torrance Refining Company Community Advisory Panel, the CalEPA Interagency Refinery Task Force, and a Chevron/Response Agency joint meeting, promoting emergency preparedness and coordination among industry, agencies, and the public. - Through its Communication Committee, Beach Cities CAER used a donation from Torrance Refining Company to design and install a new emergency preparedness billboard and distributed Beach Cities CAER educational materials and website information at the League of Cities Annual Conference and other events, reaching over a thousand individuals with refinery safety and preparedness messaging.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -11.6%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.85; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 80%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.2% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.8% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $86K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.