California Band Alumni Association (Cbaa)
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 943021922
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Berkeley, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5106423436
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alumni Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $20,399
- Expenses
- $12,895
- Assets
- $215,156
- Liabilities
- $10
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ASHLEY WHITTAKER (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ASHLEY WHITTAKER (PRESIDENT)
- KATHERINE PITTMAN (SECRETARY)
- DEBORAH ZAJAC (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To benefit a state-owned public university.
What it reported doing in 2024
Publish a regular newsletter and maintain a website informing alumni of upcoming events, alumni news and status/needs of the current cal band, to the benefit of u.c. Berkeley. Number of persons benefitted is in the hundreds, plus the 200-plus current cal band members.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 67% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 79
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 82.7%; rating input score 83
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 36.8%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 16.69; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 23.4% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -10.1% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 68% of revenue deployed · 82.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $11K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- 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: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.