Canal Alliance
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 942832648
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Rafael, CA, US
- Phone
- +1415-454-2640
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $18,507,172
- Expenses
- $16,799,252
- Assets
- $38,116,176
- Liabilities
- $20,499,423
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
24 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARA PEREZ PHD (PRESIDENT)
- MORRIS BEAZLEY (VICE PRESIDENT)
- OMAR CARRERA (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- OMAR CARRERA (CEO): $452,249 total reported compensation
- KAREN RODRIGUEZ (CFO): $209,527 total reported compensation
- SARA MATSON (CDO): $188,542 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 break the generational cycle of poverty for Latino immigrants and their families by lifting barriers to their success. We believe that everyone has the right to achieve their dreams. Every day, we partner with Latino immigrants and their families to best meet their needs and support their goals — from putting food on the table, to becoming U.S. citizens, to learning English, to graduating from college to gaining skills that lead to quality jobs with career-path employment opportunities. In parallel to our high-impact direct services, we address the root causes of inequity through bold, place-based initiatives. Together, we’re building a Marin where everyone can live, learn,.
What it reported doing in 2024
Workforce development provides training that prepares and supports clients to gain quality jobs that offer career-track employment opportunities. The program ensures client success by providing wraparound case management and two years of follow-up services. The program has a high one-year job retention rate of 87% and income increases that average 41%. We also offer small business classes in spanish to help latinos launch and manage their own small businesses.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 70% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 89% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 76
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 66.3%; rating input score 66
- Program expense ratio: 72.1%; rating input score 72
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.97 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.2%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.27; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.54; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.1%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.8% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.9% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.1% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 10 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 66.3% of revenue deployed · 72.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 16 of 16 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 7 filed program accomplishments · $12.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $452K · 24 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $650K reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.