Friends of the Sierra Nevada Field Campu
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 822604867
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Pacifica, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6502555763
- Rating
- 53
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Philanthropy, Voluntarism, and Grantmaking Foundations N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $14,547
- Expenses
- $16,747
- Assets
- $64,648
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jennifer Kennedy (President)
- Brian Perry (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Bill Wilson (Director)
- Mike Vasey (Treasurer)
- Greg Budney (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
Support SFSU Sierra Nevada Field Campus
What it reported doing in 2025
Facility upgrades at San Francisco State University Collegeof Science & Engineering Sierra Nevada Field Campus
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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. 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: 30
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 31.3%; rating input score 31
- Program expense ratio: 27.2%; rating input score 27
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -15.1%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.86; rating input score 79; 79th 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: 15.6% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -36.2% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 31.3% of revenue deployed · 27.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $5K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 31/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 27/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.