For a Good Cause

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
824333838
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2018–2020
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2020
Location
Foresthill, CA, USA
Phone
5305125070
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Fund Raising and Fund Distribution

Reported finances

Revenue
$5,214
Expenses
$11,732
Assets
$433
Liabilities
$13,958

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • LYNDA LOCATELL (CEO)

People named in this filing

  • LYNDA LOCATELL (CEO)
  • ROBYN IVERSON (Secretary)
  • BRIAN MILLER (CFO)

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 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Primary mission is to provide grants to other nonprofits and community organizations to aid in the advancement of their charitable work. Provide for raising of funds through public and private donations and sale of usable durable goods and consignment items

What it reported doing in 2020

Received and sold donated goods to support organization's exempt purpose.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 13
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -125%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.04; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 32.24; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -24.7% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -59.3% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -84.2% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2018 to 2020
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is recorded as not currently operating in California.