Cajuns Aviation Dream Incorporated
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 830871064
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Valencia, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6616002467
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $27,122
- Expenses
- $24,979
- Assets
- $49,365
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JEANNETTE CROWDER (President & CEO)
People named in this filing
- JEANNETTE CROWDER (President & CEO)
- CYNTHIA DEL BAGNO (Treasurer)
- TIFFANY SPEAKS (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
Scholarship awards to help inspire future aviators ages 8+ to pursue aviation related goals with funds to use towards flight training, aviation schools or support education related organizations such as the eaa explore air camp and aviation museums.
What it reported doing in 2025
$900 for camp fee flight reimbursements, three discovery flight awards totaling $2,075 and fifteen fly with cajun awards totaling $7,530 were granted to young people interested in aviation.
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
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 57% for direct work, and 43% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. 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: 56
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 54.7%; rating input score 55
- Program expense ratio: 59.4%; rating input score 59
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.9%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.98; rating input score 65; 65th 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: 14.7% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.5% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 54.7% of revenue deployed · 59.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $15K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 55/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 59/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.