Creative Community Education Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 371439250
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2012
- Location
- Alameda, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5109954300
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $42,218
- Expenses
- $65,808
- Assets
- $70,536
- Liabilities
- $18,517
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ida Garakani Good (President)
- Becky Freeman (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Ida Garakani Good (President)
- Antony Ouyang (Treasurer)
- Daniel Hoover (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To support the goals adopted from time to time of Alameda Community Learning Center, a charter school under the Alameda Unified School District, as an educational school providing enrichment programs related to technology skills, educational activities, learner empowerment and learning to learn skills along with organizing various fundraising events.
What it reported doing in 2024
Funded various charter school activitiesfor students in 6th through 12 grades. Largest funded initiatives included: Media Arts and Technology Enhancement ($6,400)Modernized the school's media lab by replacing obsolete, 12-year-old hardware with 12 Apple computers and 2 industrial-grade 3-D printers. Provided critical technology access to the entire middle and high schoollearners enrolled in media arts (a core class). Upgrade ensured students can master current industry-standard software in creative design and engineering.Environmental Science / Biology Field Studies ($6,000)Facilitated two immersive 'living laboratory' sailing expeditions on the San Francisco Bay for 123 learners in grades 9 through 11. Students conducted hands-on ecological investigations to analyze human impact on local marine ecosystems. The program funded chartered vessel access, specialized coaching, and transportation, allowing students to apply classroom biological concepts to real-world environmental conservation and watershed management.Civic Engagement and Educational Equity ($5,500)Promoted educational equity by providing financial scholarships and deposits for 11 learners from low-income households to participate in a national civics and government study program in Washington D.C. By removing financial barriers for students qualifying for free/reduced lunch, the organization enabled at-risk 8th-grade learners to engage directly with the governing process and develop the skills necessary to become active, informed participants in civil society.
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
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
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 revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 88.5%; rating input score 89
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -55.9%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.07; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.26; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.6% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 88.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $58K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- 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 12/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.