California Access Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 933252208
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Scotts Valley, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4088872810
- Rating
- 61
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $990,428
- Expenses
- $85,395
- Assets
- $1,444,061
- Liabilities
- $539,028
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SANJAY KHANDELWAL (PRESIDENT)
- KEN NYE (SECRETARY & VICE-PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- SANJAY KHANDELWAL (PRESIDENT)
- KEN NYE (SECRETARY & VICE-PRESIDENT)
- TODD HAUSCHILDT (TREASUER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
California access foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization formed with the mission to increase access to high-speed internet across California, with an initial focus in California's central coast communities. The mission of the California access foundation is to ensure equitable digital access for all californians, recognizing broadband as a fundamental necessity. By focusing on connectivity, stakeholder engagement, and digital literacy, the organization aims to create a more inclusive digital landscape across the state. California access foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring equitable digital access for all californians, recognizing broadband as a fundamental necessity.
What it reported doing in 2024
California access foundation was awarded nine total grants through the California public utilities commission's federal funding account (ffa) program, totaling approximately $13.3 million to expand high-speed broadband access across santa clara, santa cruz, and monterey counties. These awards represent a major milestone in advancing digital equity for rural and underserved communities throughout California's central coast.through these projects, the organization has helped secure funding for critical last-mile broadband infrastructure that will connect hundreds of unserved households and small businesses to reliable, high-speed internet service. The awarded projects are focused on delivering fiber-to-the-home (ftth) networks that provide symmetrical gigabit speedsbridging longstanding connectivity gaps that have limited access to education, healthcare, and economic opportunity in these regions.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 94% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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 and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 29
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 87
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 6.5%; rating input score 7
- Program expense ratio: 75.6%; rating input score 76
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- 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: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 91.4%; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 16.91; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.37; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 6.5% of revenue deployed · 75.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $65K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 19 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 7/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.