First Amendment Foundation of Ventura County
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 883524464
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Ojai, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3107706665
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $560
- Assets
- $1,260
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- John Brooks (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Kevin Davis (Chair of the Board and Founder)
- John Brooks (Executive Director)
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
The First Amendment Foundation of Ventura County is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization founded to promote journalism and freedom of speech in our county. We strive to empower journalists of all kinds? employed reporters, freelancers, stringers, and aspiring journalists? so that timely, verifiable, data-based news can continue to better the lives of people across our community.
What it reported doing in 2024
We have focused on making enroads with local journalism organizations. However, due to lack of progress, we have decided to wind the organization up and give our remaining assets to a more successful, similarly focused nonprofit organization such as there First Amendment Coalition.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
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: 36
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: 35.7%; rating input score 36
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.25; rating input score 68; 68th 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: 35.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $200 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 36/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is recorded as not currently operating in California.