Foothill Communities Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 953468656
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Tustin, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5625332989
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $130,775
- Expenses
- $117,500
- Assets
- $28,303
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RICHARD NELSON (PRESIDENT)
- JANE RICE (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- RICHARD NELSON (PRESIDENT)
- JANE RICE (VICE PRESIDENT)
- LARRY DUONG (TREASURER)
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
The Foothill Communities Association (FCA) is a nonprofit corporation located in the unincorporated area known as North Tustin, California. The community includes the unincorporated parts of zip code 92705 with postal name Santa Ana and zip code 92780 with postal name Tustin. Since 1964, Foothill Communities Association has strived to preserve and enhance our highly-valued living environment. The Association is passionate about maintaining its neighborhood and defending it against rezoning and preventing condensed housing from being built. Over 10,000 homes are within the charter area. North Tustin is the largest unincorporated community in Orange County, California.
What it reported doing in 2025
Save the racquet club defense project '25
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.3%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 90.5%; rating input score 91
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.2%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.24; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -17% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 48.1% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -18.8% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81.3% of revenue deployed · 90.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $106K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.