Californians Building Bridges
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 273261715
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Sacramento, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9164438891
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Private Grantmaking Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $108,255
- Expenses
- $85,843
- Assets
- $166,891
- Liabilities
- $52,964
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DARIUS ANDERSON (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DARIUS ANDERSON (PRESIDENT)
- CHARLES FINA (TREASURER)
- KEVIN MURRAY (DIRECTOR)
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
The organization's primary purpose is to assist other charitable organizations in expediting projects, setting priorities, and achieving goals. Californians building bridges will develop humanitarian programs that help volunteers and corporate partners alike make a useful connection to a world in need. Its priorities include offering one-time financial grants and donations of supplies and materials to charitable organizations that lack their own resources or do not qualify for assistance through existing agencies and organizations in their region.
What it reported doing in 2025
Cbb supports people-to-people cultural, humanitarian and entrepreneurial exchange between the people of cuba and California. Cbb sponsors dozens of annual "people-to-people" educational exchanges to cuba and one or more exchange visits by cuban artists, musicians and entrepreneurs to the united states. The organization also provides care for the father usera day care center, a senior center in havana.cbb organized a guided educational trip to havana, cuba in 2025 for members of the young presidents organization (ypo). The related trip revenue was received from ypo, and cbb did not receive payments directly from individual participants.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% 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. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76%; rating input score 76
- Program expense ratio: 95.8%; rating input score 96
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 20.7%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.94; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.32; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 121.5% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -12% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 76% of revenue deployed · 95.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $82K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.