Cottongrowers Warehouse Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 956138429
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Bakersfield, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6613956818
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $148,990
- Expenses
- $134,205
- Assets
- $183,509
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ROBERT SWIZE (PRESIDENT)
- ERIC WANJURA (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ROBERT SWIZE (PRESIDENT)
- ERIC WANJURA (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JOSEPH CAIN (SEC/TREASURER)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Legislative services- advocate cotton industry positions with various members of congress on issues of importance to cotton warehousers
What it reported doing in 2025
--income was due to lobbying expenses. Excise taxes are not due because members were informed of the non-deductible percentage of their dues as stated in section 162 (e) (3) of thre internal revenue code
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 64% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 56
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 53.9%; rating input score 54
- Program expense ratio: 59.6%; rating input score 60
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.9%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.37; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 53.9% of revenue deployed · 59.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $80K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 54/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.