Crescent Moon Center

What it reported doing in 2025

Crescent Moon Center provided 38 workshops and served 340 participants. All participants received workshops at no-cost or by sliding-scale donation. Programs with community partners helped to extend our reach and ensure access for marginalized communities, low-income individuals, those with disabilities, and people recovering from addiction and mental health challenges.Participants were 89% female and ranged in age (18-60+) with the majority falling in the age range of 31-50, showing the programs broad appeal especially to women experiencing mental health challenges in mid-life. The data suggests there is a need for us to reach more men with our program. By expanding our Community Partner Program, we ensured accessibility for low-income, marginalized communities. 50% of participants were BIPOC individuals and 82% of participants were from Solano County, where trauma, addiction, and limited access to wellness resources disproportionately affect residents.Our data shows that many individuals struggling with substance use disorder are also suffering from numerous forms of trauma, disability, chronic health issues, poverty, and unemployment. 73% of our participants reported being in recovery for substance use and 73% report having a history of trauma. 42% struggled with a disability or chronic condition. 87% of participants were low-income, defined as$75K annually. 77% of participants were extremely low income, defined as$25K annually. This reflects the Centers commitment to creating an inclusive space for all participants and our dedication to tackling the mental health crisis in Solano County. Participants need our support to achieve sustained mental health and wellbeing in their recovery from trauma, while also maintaining sobriety. Our mission is to create a community of support around people in recovery from mental health challenges, including stress, trauma, addiction and disability.Based on post workshop surveys, Archway participants self-reported improvements in learning skills that support their long-term recovery and wellbeing. 83% Improved Emotional Awareness 83% Improved Coping Skills 90% Improved Healthy RelatingOur years work included the start of: A partnership with Archway Recovery Services, a multi-stepped residential addiction program in Fairfield, providing expressive arts, nature-based experiences, mindfulness and equine-assistedlearning workshops to women on a bi-weekly basis; A partnership with the Downtown Youth Wellness Center (DYWC), a Santa Clara County Behavioral Health program dedicated to promoting a safe, supportive, and youth-focused environment. As part of our pilot program with young adults (18-25), we offered 1 year of free monthly expressive arts workshops to support and empower these at-risk youth who experience homelessness, substance abuse, mental illness, autism, and domestic violence. Many events including: An Earth Day Celebration at Rush Ranch, where we invited the public to create a community art painting. Adults, youth and families joined in. A nature photography walk around Rush Ranch led by an award-winning eco-therapist and videographer where people, inspired by the surrounding environment, took photographs of plants, trees, wildlife, ranch work, horses and the cows which live in neighboring pastures as part of Mays Mental Health month in Solano County.We increased the number of volunteers who work with the Crescent Moon team and brought them to Rush Ranch for a day of ranch chores. As part of our growing volunteer program, we piloted volunteer days with Access Adventure and the Solano Land Trust to engage volunteers interested in land-based community activities. Volunteers learned ranch skills, land stewardship and, most importantly, engagement with community service. We invested in a highly skilled and experienced independent program evaluator with whom we met weekly to gather data from surveys of all of our workshops and analyze program outcomes. Participants fill out pre-and post-

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 76.3%; rating input score 76
• Program expense ratio: 69.6%; rating input score 70
• Fundraising efficiency: $5.01 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: Limited
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Fail
  • Document-retention policy: Fail
  • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
  • Audit committee oversight: Missing
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -9.6%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.23; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 25.8% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: -13.9% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings