Camino De California
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 331857312
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- El Dorado Hls, CA, USA
- Rating
- 55
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $159,447
- Expenses
- $50,598
- Assets
- $108,849
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jeff Russell (Chief Executive Officer)
People named in this filing
- Jeff Russell (Chief Executive Officer)
- Lidia Fiandeiro (Secretary)
- Pablo Torres (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 Camino de California is an all volunteer apostolate and movement of the Holy Spirit seeking the conversion of souls in California thru Eucharistic procession and pilgrimage centered on Californias missions.
What it reported doing in 2025
Labor Day Mission Carmel Pilgrimage. Camino de California hosted two dozen pilgrims with no-cost accommodations for three nights at the Gardener Ranch in Carmel Valley. The Labor Day Carmel pilgrims traveled from St Michaels in Portland OR and journeyed from Mission San Juan Bautista to Salinas to San Carlos Cathedral in Monterey to Mission Carmel.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
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: 23
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 76
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 12.9%; rating input score 13
- Program expense ratio: 40.5%; rating input score 40
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: 68.3%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.15; rating input score 81; 81st 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: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 12.9% of revenue deployed · 40.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $20K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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 13/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 40/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.