Coffee with a Cause
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 770399522
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Pasadena, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9098163460
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Job Training
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,198,509
- Expenses
- $987,050
- Assets
- $393,131
- Liabilities
- $130,252
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- DAN DAVIDSON (Executive Dir.): $56,629 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of Coffee With A Cause is to help transitional age youth (ages 16- 24) who have experienced foster care, homelessness and justice system-involvement in finding a pathway to sustainable employment and long-term careers. During our 15-month internship program, interns receive soft skills training as well as hands-on experience in various trades through partnerships with local businesses, such as coffee shops, retail outlets, or landscaping firms. Upon completion of the three-month internship, participants are matched with a volunteer mentor who works with them for 12 months to secure and maintain meaningful employment as the youths navigate towards independence.100% of the profits from Rosebud Coffee, which is wholly owned by Coffee With a Cause, going to funding the youth intern and mentorship program. In addition, an internship at Rosebud coffee provides training and job skills that can lead to a Barista Certification from the Specialty Coffee Association and the opportunit
What it reported doing in 2024
Rosebud Coffee is fully owned by Coffee With A Cause and serves as an on-site internship location for job-readiness training, specifically for Transitional Age Youth (ages 1624) who have experienced foster care, homelessness, or justice system involvement. The program helps young people find pathways to sustainable employment and long-term careers. In 2024, we served 35 youth paid internships at Rosebud Coffee and our partnering sites, gaining hands-on experience and preparation for meaningful employment upon graduation. We achieved a 90% success of our interns securing employment or full-time college enrollment. This year, we welcomed 20 new volunteers to the program and expanded internship opportunities to 10 local businesses throughout the community as well as added three professional certificationsin coffee, IT, and personal traininggiving our youth a competitive edge in their job search.
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 99% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Accountability: 39
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 93.5%; rating input score 93
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17.6%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.4; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.33; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.7%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 28.2% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 40.8% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 66.1% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 77% of revenue deployed · 93.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 6 board members independent · 0 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $923K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $57K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 51/100.