Clear Creek Services
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 943338685
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Fremont, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5108180720
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Developmentally Disabled Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,371,772
- Expenses
- $2,333,031
- Assets
- $4,777,147
- Liabilities
- $105,432
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lou Risley (President)
- Carl Nordling (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Edith Sarmiento (Executive Dir.): $103,072 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
CLEAR CREEK SERVICES, INC. (the Organization), mission is to enhance the quality of the life of its residents by providing a warm and loving home-like environment, with staff that are caring, qualified and professional, to encourage its residents to become active and valued members of the community through participation in vocational day programs, community activities and local events, to ensure long-term viability and care of its residents through responsible governance.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization has three homes that occupy six adults in each home, cedar home, oak home and redwood home, all located in the niles grove area of fremont. Each home occupies individuals with different, yet similar levels of developmental disabilities. All homes provide physical assistance with personal care and 24-hour supervision to maintain each client's general wellbeing and safety. All clients participate in a day program and meaningful recreational and community activities, where they are exposed to continuance of development and maintenance of autonomy in basic life skills, maintenance of positive relationships with others, independent living and communication to strive for replacement of maladaptive behaviors with positive skills. Professional assessment of health and wellbeing is provided to all clients. Two homes: redwood and cedar offer extensive interdisciplinary consultation including a licensed psychologist, a registered nurse, a dietician, an occupational therapist, a clinical social worker and other professionals depending on personal need. In 2024 we served 18 clients with a 50 day gap where there were only 17 clients.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 78% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.8%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 87.7%; rating input score 88
- 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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 1.6%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.05; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.4%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.9% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.6% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.8% of revenue deployed · 87.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $103K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.