California Resource Recovery Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237197715
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- West Sacramento, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9164412772
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,045,968
- Expenses
- $893,382
- Assets
- $889,918
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Wanda Redic (President)
- Manuel Medrano (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Tracie Onstad Bills (Executive Dir.): $96,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to provide our members with resources to advance local, regional and statewide waste reduction efforts which result in critical environmental and climate protection outcomes.Our vision is to achieve environmental sustainability in and beyond California through Zero Waste strategies including product stewardship, waste prevention, reuse, recycling and composting.Our guiding principles are to: Reduce Demand on Resources Stop Enabling Waste Manage Materials, Not Waste Product Stewardship Preserve Embodied Energy and Value Local Utilization of Resources
What it reported doing in 2024
During 2024, CRRA provided its members with resources to advance local, regional and statewide waste reduction efforts which result in critical environmental and climate protection outcomes. Resources include professional development services delivered through the Annual Conference and a variety of workshops and professional events; certification training; and website-based resources. CRRA serves as a forum to educate members, the industry statewide and nationally, the public, and the media about waste reduction and resource recovery.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% 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
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 some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 81
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.4%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 90.6%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 5th 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: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14.6%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.7%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.5% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 77.4% of revenue deployed · 90.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $810K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $96K · 10 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $101K reported
- Consistency: 23 of 24 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 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.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 34/100.