California Task Force 3 Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 931496188
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- East Palo Alto, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5105892624
- Rating
- 56
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $28,185
- Expenses
- $13,279
- Assets
- $18,445
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- John Wurdinger (President / CEO)
- Ben Marra (Vice President / Secretary)
People named in this filing
- John Wurdinger (President / CEO)
- Harold Schaplehouman (Treasurer / CFO)
- Ben Marra (Vice President / 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
To support California Task Force 3, one of twenty-eight National Urban Search and Rescue Teams in the United States.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Foundation was able to secure a donation of Google Software Licensing at $14 a member per month. Over the course of a year for the a Task force of 250 member profiles we secured $42,000 in in kind donations to the Task Force. This donation allowed us to support the members of California Task Force 3 and it's Sponsoring Agency, the Menlo Park Fire Protection District if various tools on the "Google Platform.'
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 34
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 74
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 24%; rating input score 24
- Program expense ratio: 50.9%; rating input score 51
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 52.9%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.39; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -144.5% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 144.5% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 135.6% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 24% of revenue deployed · 50.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $7K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 24/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 51/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.