Contra Costa Solano Center for Consumer Law and Self Help
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 432026710
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2017
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2017, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Walnut Creek, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9252994450
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Research Institutes and Public Policy Analysis
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
People named in this filing
- GEOFFREY STEELE (Chairman)
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 2017. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Pro bono legal referals
What it reported doing in 2017
Educational services to assist the general public achieve access to free and/or low costs legal services by the development of self-help centers and workshops. Legal resources, volunteer attorneys, and law students all work to create and provide affordable services, workshops and educational materials regarding family law, landlord/tenant rights, identity theft and many other legal matters.
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
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
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: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: NotEnoughData
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 1 of 1 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2015 to 2017
- 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 — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is not authorized to operate as a charity in California.