Conservation Action Fund for Education
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 743166298
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Santa Rosa, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7075718566
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $7,721
- Expenses
- $33,991
- Assets
- $182,313
- Liabilities
- $40,123
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- Michael Allen (Director)
- Dennis Rosatti (Executive Dir.)
- Chris Rogers (Director)
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
To educate, engage and empower the public on issues that concern sustainability and the environment in the North Coast region of California.
What it reported doing in 2024
Sustainability Program - CAFE supports workshops on sustainability issues to encourage changes in people's lives that will lead to a more sustainable style of living. Transit Education and Station Planning Program- CAFE has been active in station area planning for the areas around the train depots along the SMART rail and trail line, in particular in Petaluma and Santa Rosa. CAFE promotes transit oriented development and works directly with the public and public agencies to encourage implementing planning concepts of walkable and livable urban environments for the future.Fiscal Sponsored Project= Safe Ag, Safe Schools (SASS): Sonoma Safe Ag, Safe Schools is a coalition of community organizations paving the way for safer land management policies especially around our schools and communities. Working to protect public health and the environment, SASS raises public awareness and provides community education to work toward replacing synthetic pesticides with ecologically sound and socially just alternatives. SASS hosted public workshops and directly talked to landowners regarding pesticide use and dangers. SASS also preformed public research on toxic chemical loads being used by agriculture in Sonoma County, and near the town of Graton, CA.
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
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 liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 98.7%; rating input score 99
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -340.2%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.36; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.22; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 98.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $34K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.