Coastal Marine Biolabs Integrative Biosciences Program Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 205458696
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Ventura, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8052899275
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $624,073
- Expenses
- $632,783
- Assets
- $294,436
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ralph Imondi (President and CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Ralph Imondi (President and CEO): $45,609 total reported compensation
- Linda Santschi (Treasurer): $42,984 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Coastal Marine Biolabs CMB develops model programs and educational resources aimed at improving high school science teaching and learning. CMB provides innovative and comprehensive science learning experiences for high school students to help better prepare them for success in 21st century science career settings. The organization also provides immersive professional development experiences that are designed to provide high school science teachers with the subject matter knowledge technical training classroom resources and instructional strategies required to successfully implement science curricula developed by our faculty and their partners. SEE SCHEDULE O for additional information.
What it reported doing in 2024
The specific purpose of this corporation is to provide comprehensive and unique learning experiences for high school students and to provide career professional development workshops for high school science educators.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 28
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 98.9%; rating input score 99
- 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: 33.3%; rating input score 33; 10th 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.4%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.47; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 18.1% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 19.1% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.9% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 98.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 1 of 3 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $626K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $46K · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 41 of 41 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 33/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.