California Dream Week
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 453801054
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2023
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Durham, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5308989009
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $2,488
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Melisa Lasell (President)
People named in this filing
- Melisa Lasell (President)
- Arlita Purser (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 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Believing in the power of our youth's ability to change the world, the Mission of California Dream Week is to offer a venue, focused on sustainability, that encourages Junior and Senior high school students to submit their dreams and ideas for sustainable design in any one of three categories: Architece and Design, transportation, and Product Compliments, and to offer the winning submittals with scholarships as well as financially rewarding the high schools which help to facilitate this creativity.
What it reported doing in 2023
Sustainable design competition involving over 20 schools and hundreds of students, with scholarships awarded to the winning submittals, and cash awarded to the supporting schools.
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
- 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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 7
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd 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: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2012 to 2023
- 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.
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 — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is recorded as not currently operating in California.