California Trout Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237135962
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4153928887
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Fisheries Resources
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $0
- Assets
- $208,503
- Liabilities
- $711,550
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
People named in this filing
- KELLY BARLOW (BOARD CHAIR)
- STEVE BALOFF (TREASURER)
- JEFF WILLIAMS (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
California trout was established in 1971 for the purpose of undertaking programs and activities to conserve and enhance the wild trout and their natural habitat within California. Additionally, California trout gathers funds to finance charitable, scientific and educational research projects, and to preserve and rehabilitate public trout and steelhead fisheries in California.
What it reported doing in 2024
California trout foundation is the sister organization of California trout, inc. (fein 23-7097680) which, like the foundation, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation. The foundation holds title to conserved-land properties.
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
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
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: 41
- Sustainability: 0
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 50%; rating input score 50; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 3.41; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: -16.8% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: 0% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Series filing activity did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.