County Recorders Association of California
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 946000541
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Sacramento, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9169322200
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $123,398
- Expenses
- $185,395
- Assets
- $230,777
- Liabilities
- $4,511
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Rebecca Turner (Vice President)
- Dean Logan (President)
People named in this filing
- Rebecca Turner (Vice President)
- Dean Logan (President)
- Kristen DePaul (Secretary)
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
Promotion of professional standards through the exchange of information and ideas, and stimulation of a supportive and cooperative working environment towards the common interest of quality service to the public among the county recording offices in the State of California.
What it reported doing in 2025
Production and sales of electronic and hard print versions of a Document Reference and Indexing Manuel (DRIM) - a training and reference manuel for state-wide recording and indexing staff to look up various document recording requirements.A committee reviews new laws for any necessary updates.The electronic version is only available to county Recorder's offices.The printed version is purchased and used by title companies, lawyers, law libraries, and other document submitters. The electronic DRIM was made available to all counties and the fee charged is based on the population of the county.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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: 32
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -50.2%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.24; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.5% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.