California Landscape Contractors Association

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
941295004
IRS 990 coverage
2013–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Sacramento, CA, USA
Phone
9168302780
Rating confidence
Limited

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,195,029
Expenses
$1,606,940
Assets
$4,117,810
Liabilities
$743,912

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • TOM SWEENEY (PRESIDENT)
  • EVAN MOFFITT (PAST PRESIDENT)
  • LINDSAY ONO (PRESIDENT-ELECT)
  • ANDREW JOHNSON (DIRECTOR OF PRESIDENT COUNCIL)
  • IAN CAMPBELL (DIRECTOR OF PRESIDENT COUNCIL)
  • SANDRA GIARDE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • SANDRA GIARDE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $163,677 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Clca's mission is to serve and protect the interests of its members, promote professionalism, and advance public awareness of the landscape industry.

What it reported doing in 2024

Water management - this program helps today's green industry professionals meet the need to reduce landscape water usage using advanced irrigation technology and a water budget. Using water management, along with smart ecological choices, our landscape professionals are helping protect our environment and shape California's future. Weldcp- this program is sponsored by metropolitan water district and administered by clca to create a dual certification for landscape professionals. It combines clca's water management course with the qualified water efficient landscaper course into one training. It is offered for free to all that wish to participate in southern California. Both certifications are approved by the epa's watersense program and weldcp has received the epa watersense award of excellence for the past two years.mwel- this program is sponsored by metropolitan water district and administered by clca to help landscape professionals understand the California's model water efficient landscape ordinance. With guidance from the California department of water resources, clca offers a free certificate training to understand landscaping best management practices to prepare and comply with the ordinance for landscape contractors, landscape designers, landscape architects, irrigation consultants and city inspection agencies.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 87% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
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: 84
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 68
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Pass
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 26.8%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.56; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 10.2%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -1.6% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -3.7% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $164K · 13 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 14 of 15 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 5 filed related-organization links
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 29/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.