El Camino Quilters
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 521538583
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Oceanside, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6789837003
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Folk Arts
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $61,952
- Expenses
- $63,635
- Assets
- $64,624
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GRETCHEN CLARE (President)
- KRIS DOAN (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- MARIAN CLANCY (Treasurer)
- GRETCHEN CLARE (President)
- SHARON COOPERSON (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
To educate, inspire & encourage the art of quilting and to support local charities with our handmade items.
What it reported doing in 2025
We have regular monthly member meetings every month, typically featuring a speaker presenting her techniques including samples of her quilting which we can physically see and handle. In 2025: 1. We had 7 outside presenters come to present at our general member meeting, and the following day to teach a 1-day workshop to approximately 20 members.2. Our "Cuddle" volunteers made sewed items for donation to local charities. A total of approximately 1,800 items were donated, including NICU blankets, quilts, placemats, pillowcases, table runners, napkins, and burp cloths.3. We had three work sessions monthly to work on Cuddle charity work: 1st Thursdays at Quilt in a Day (San Marcos), 3rd Thursdays at El Corazon Senior Center (Oceanside), and 4th Mondays at San Marcos Senior Center (San Marcos). 4. We had "Friendship groups" that meet 1-2 times monthly and these smaller meetings help members share knowledge and skills and to work together on Cuddle donation work. 5. We organized 2 educational bus trips: one to Road to California 2025, and one to Hoffman Fabrics in LA to learn about the art and craft of fabric design and construction as well as quilting. 6.We coordinated 2 quilting retreats.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 77% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 97
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97.7%; rating input score 98
- Program expense ratio: 95.1%; rating input score 95
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2.7%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.02; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 97.7% of revenue deployed · 95.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $61K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.