Bonny Doon Fire Safe Council Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
320315464
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2018
Location
Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Phone
8314251934
Rating
90
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Fire Prevention

Reported finances

Revenue
$92,450
Expenses
$86,788
Assets
$103,114

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Lisa Schallop (President)
  • Paul Gabriel (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Lisa Schallop (President)
  • Paul Gabriel (Vice President)
  • Meggin Harmon (Treasurer)

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

Our mission is to educate and mobilize the people of Ben Lomond Mountain to protect their communities, homes and environment from wildfire.

What it reported doing in 2025

Reducing the spread of wildfires on Ben Lomond Mountain routes with strategically located fuel breaks-contract with the California Fire Safe Council and US Forest Service to reduce roadside ignition hazards and create a defensible fire break along two sections of major egress roads in Bonny Doon. This is a multi-year project and involves getting individual landowner approval for work on their roadside frontages from 90 landowners

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

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: 95
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 48
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 92.5%; rating input score 93
  • Program expense ratio: 98.6%; rating input score 99

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: 6.1%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.19; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -21.3% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -18.2% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -18.3% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 92.5% of revenue deployed · 98.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $86K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 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 55/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.