Golden Touch Educational Foundation Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
332616056
IRS 990 coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Banning, CA, USA
Phone
9096484838
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Educational Services and Schools - Other

Reported finances

Revenue
$0
Expenses
$0
Assets
$0
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

1 person listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • LAWRENCE C HARDY (CEO)

People named in this filing

  • LAWRENCE C HARDY (CEO)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Golden touch education foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering and equipping youth with the knowledge, mentorship, and skills needed to pursue successful college and career pathways. For more than 20 years, the organization has served and mentored young people by helping them identify opportunities, build confidence, and explore future possibilities beyond the classroom. The foundation was established on the belief that every student deserves access to meaningful guidance, career exploration, and educational support. Many students graduate without a clear vision for their future, not due to a lack of ambition, but because they have not been exposed to real-world career experiences or connected with mentors who can help guide their journey. Golden touch education foundation works to address this need by providing mentorship, educational resources, leadership development, and career exposure opportunities designed to prepare students for long-term a

What it reported doing in 2025

Donations

Operating model

Revenue model
No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
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: 80
  • Accountability: 0
  • Sustainability: NotEnoughData
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

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

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 80%; rating input score 80; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: Limited
  • Governance controls: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: Limited

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 0 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $675 in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 8 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 6 not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Series filing activity did not reconcile in the filed values.