Carpinteria Community Association

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
934186261
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Carpinteria, CA, USA
Phone
8056847629
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards

Reported finances

Revenue
$39,921
Expenses
$25,601
Assets
$34,982

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • KAREN GRAF (President)
  • MARY ANN COLSON (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • KAREN GRAF (President)
  • DONNA LEMERE (Treasurer)
  • MARY ANN COLSON (Vice President)

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 carpinteria community association (cca) was founded to honor the unique spiritof carpinteria and invest in its future through education. At the heart of cca's mission is the commitment to raising scholarship funds and hosting the community awards banquet, a meaningful event that both celebrates community excellence and serves as a fundraiser for scholarships. The banquet recognizes the carpinterian of the year, junior carpinterian of the year, and outstanding students, educators, and community members whose education has made a lasting impact on carpinteria.

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
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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 65
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 63
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 54.1%; rating input score 54
  • Program expense ratio: 84.4%; rating input score 84

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 35.9%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.37; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -7.6% per year; rating input score 0; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 59.7% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 38.4% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 54.1% of revenue deployed · 84.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $22K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 54/100.
  • 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.