Citizens for California High Speed Rail Accountability
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 452780175
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Hanford, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5594697347
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $8,275
- Assets
- $342,132
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRIAN MEDEIROS (President)
- KEVIN ROBERTSON (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- BRIAN MEDEIROS (President)
- KEVIN ROBERTSON (Vice President)
- JOE MACHADO (Treasurer)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Mutual benefit corporation which acts on behalf of its members to ensure the proposed California high speed rail project does not adversley affect the economy, environment or quality of life for California's existing communities.
What it reported doing in 2024
Meetings and litigation for accountability for economic and environmental protection of the areas affected by the California high speed rail proposals.
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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 38
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 41.35; rating input score 98; 98th 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: -24.9% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -35.7% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $8K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is recorded as not currently operating in California.