Friends of Runyon Canyon Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 465011688
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- West Hollywood, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3233337445
- Rating
- 55
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Environmental Quality, Protection, and Beautification N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $28,343
- Expenses
- $7,497
- Assets
- $165,522
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Donald Andres (President)
- Paul Moore (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- John Gile (Director)
- Shawn Meaux (Director)
- Susan Taylor (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Raise funds to preserve and protect the public park and raise funds for adding open green space land to the Runyon Canyon park.
What it reported doing in 2025
Purchased dog waste bags for the six dog waste stations in the park
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 84% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 22
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Sustainability: 88
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 15.6%; rating input score 16
- Program expense ratio: 32.1%; rating input score 32
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 73.5%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 22.08; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -27% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.9% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 15.6% of revenue deployed · 32.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $2K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 16/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 32/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.