California Mens Gathering
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 943159694
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- West Hollywood, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3106668253
- Rating
- 92
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $134,005
- Expenses
- $125,814
- Assets
- $108,201
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MICHAEL KRAMER (PRESIDENT)
- STEVEN KARBELNG (VICE-PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MICHAEL KRAMER (PRESIDENT)
- STEVEN KARBELNG (VICE-PRESIDENT)
- VICTORIANO FUSILERO (SECRETARY)
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
Since 1978 California mens gatherings has met at least annually, and recently multiple times yearly, to provide a space for men to explore what it means to be a man in the modern world.
What it reported doing in 2025
Gatherings: during 2025 cmg held 3 in-person weekend gatherings with community meetings, workshops, speakers, and excercises intended to educate men to improve their social, emotional, and spiritual well-being in the process of becoming better members of society, 250+ men served.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 85% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.7%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 93.4%; rating input score 93
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.1%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.86; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 26.4% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 30% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.5% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.7% of revenue deployed · 93.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $117K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.