California Alfalfa & Forage Association
Legal name: California Alfalfa and Forage Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 680408504
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Oakdale, CA, US
- Phone
- (209) 988-8080
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $18,894
- Expenses
- $41,490
- Assets
- $60,300
- Liabilities
- $1,799
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
People named in this filing
- BRANDON FAWAZ (CHAIRMAN)
- DAVID ROBERTI (SECRETARY/TR)
- LYNDON ICHIDA (DISTRICT DIR)
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
To promote the California alfalfa and forage industry through research, education, and advocacy.
What it reported doing in 2025
The world alfalfa congress pulls together experienced alfalfa scientists, farmers, students, and businesses from around the world to learn from each other about production technology, economics, genetics, and environmental interactions of this important crop.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 86% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -119.6%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.45; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 38.4% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 7/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.