Fresno Economic Opportunities Commission
Legal name: Fresno County Economic Opportunities Commission
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 941606519
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Fresno, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5592631030
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $158,886,554
- Expenses
- $159,865,856
- Assets
- $40,209,042
- Liabilities
- $30,310,023
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
36 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Emilia Reyes (Chief Executive Officer)
Highest reported compensation
- Emilia Reyes (Chief Executive Officer): $328,750 total reported compensation
- Michelle Tutunjian (Chief Operating Officer): $219,618 total reported compensation
- Nelson Dibie (Chief People and C): $191,882 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To uplift individuals and families by developing the skills, confidence, and opportunities to achieve long-term stability. As one of the largest and most effective poverty-fighting organizations in the country, Fresno EOC operates over 30 human service programs designed to reduce poverty, increase self-sufficiency, and build stronger communities. The agency budget is approximately $100 million annually, with funding from private, local, regional, state, and federal sources. Those resources allow Fresno EOC to serve over 100,000 Fresno County residents each year through programs that make a real, measurable difference—giving families the immediate help they need to weather day-to-day crises and the long-term support that allows them to build better lives. Fresno EOC is a private, nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation g.
What it reported doing in 2024
Food and nutrition - provided supplemental nutrition assistance to women, infants, and children (wic) with a goal of improving lifelong health and nutrition of the clients served including nutrition education services and breastfeeding support. Provides various food services to clients such as meals to children in an educational setting and/or when school is not in session, home delivered meals to anyone who cannot or prefers not to prepare all of their own balanced daily meals. Food is provided to individuals and families residing in rural communities and inner city areas. Match funding received via ebt cards at select farmer's markets to enrolled participants to increase access to healthy fruits and vegetables. Program services provided to 63,021 individuals.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 72% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 74% for direct work, and 26% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.7%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 93.1%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.6%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.25; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.75; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 93.7% of revenue deployed · 93.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 24 of 24 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 9 filed program accomplishments · $148.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $329K · 36 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.1M reported
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.