Ceres Cemetery Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 941434540
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Ceres, CA, USA
- Phone
- 2095379013
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,659,057
- Expenses
- $1,317,188
- Assets
- $6,807,289
- Liabilities
- $69,316
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRIAN CARLIN (PRESIDENT)
- LINNY GOODRICH (VICE PRESIDENT/TREASURER)
Highest reported compensation
- LISA TANKERSLEY (CEMETERY MANAGER): $119,508 total reported compensation
- BRIAN CARLIN (PRESIDENT): $1,200 total reported compensation
- LINNY GOODRICH (VICE PRESIDENT/TREASURER): $1,200 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Ceres is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to providing and maintaining a complete interment facility for all families on a non-sectarian basis.
What it reported doing in 2024
Provides burial service to the general public.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Investment-supported. 76% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
- 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
- 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: 90
- Accountability: 68
- Sustainability: 74
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 20.6%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.17; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.6%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $120K · 7 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $105K reported
- Consistency: 11 of 11 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 38/100.