El Cajon Valley Lions Club

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
956133231
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
El Cajon, CA, USA
Phone
8584497634
Rating
37
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$74,284
Expenses
$68,067
Assets
$50,292
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Ron Nevels (President)
  • Grant Thiem III (1st Vice President)
  • Cathy Zeman (2nd Vice President)
  • Madelyne Nation (3rd Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Ron Nevels (President)
  • Grant Thiem III (1st Vice President)
  • Cathy Zeman (2nd Vice President)

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

Community Service

What it reported doing in 2025

Since 1947 the El Cajon Valley Lions Club has helped the less fortunate citizens of the local community. We provide eye exams and glasses to children in the surrounding communities. We send underprivileged and at risk your to camp every summer. Every Christmas, we provide families with children that can't afford presents and a good meal a basket of presents and food. Through our fundraising efforts, we provide assistance to Boys & Girls Club, Canine Companions for Independence, City of Hope, Police Officers Association, the local high school, Guide Dogs of the Desert, Salvation Army, San Diego Center for the Blind, San Diego Council of Literacy, and many other organizations.

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

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 53
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 8.4%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.74; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -2.5% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.