California Association for Alcoholdrug Educators
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 770045316
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Lakewood, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7077222331
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $222,044
- Expenses
- $181,715
- Assets
- $40,550
- Liabilities
- $12,814
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LOIS ZSARNAY (President/Secre)
Highest reported compensation
- DANIEL PRESCOTT (EX DIRECTOR): $24,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To promote and support higher education in addiction studies by developing and implementing accredition standards; develop and implement certification and licensure standards for addiction service professionals; and provide public policy education
What it reported doing in 2024
2024 marked major progress in credentialing. CAADE/ACCBC regained full operational oversight early in the fiscal year, rebuilt its database for stronger record retention, created onboarding and training protocols, hired and trained new staff, and cross-trained noncredentialing staff and volunteers. The organization achieved and maintained a 10-day turnaround for registration and certification applications and implemented processes to build a diverse, engaged certification board. Credentialing refocused on CAADEs core mission and the value of education for addiction counselors, setting Californias highest standards and requiring ongoing, practice-relevant education. CAADE also earned a five-year reaccreditation from the National Commission of Certifying Agencies.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 87% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.6%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 85%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 18.2%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.22; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.32; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.2%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -10.3% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.9% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -11.5% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 69.6% of revenue deployed · 85% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $154K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $24K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 24 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 26/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is not authorized to operate as a charity in California.