Happy Camp Community Action Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 911762252
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Happy Camp, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5304935117
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Senior Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,311,008
- Expenses
- $1,515,292
- Assets
- $257,753
- Liabilities
- $25,214
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MORGAN MCDONALD (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JASMINE BORGATTI (CHIEF RESLIE): $93,798 total reported compensation
- ABIGIAL YEAGER (EXCUTIVE DIR): $84,000 total reported compensation
- LINDA ZINK (OFFICE MANAG): $33,312 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 promote the health and stability of our community and its residents by engaging in activities that benefit our children our families and our economy.
What it reported doing in 2024
The first 5 program serves families and their children from ages of birth to 5 years old. The program provides outreach and referral services to families for calfresh, calworks, medi-cal, wic and other services. First 5 services include asqs, playgroups, monthly book distributions and story time in preschool and t-k/kindergarten classrooms, parenting classes, workshops and family literacy events. In 2024, the program served approximately 68 families (202 individuals). The holiday giving program, which included the holiday food program and giving tree, is a yearly program that is funded by donations. Each year it provides free community holiday dinners on thanksgiving and christmas and warm winter jackets or coats and gifts to youth ages 0 to 18 in the community. In 2024, the holiday food progam served approximately 201 people at the community dinners and the giving tree served 42 families (95 youth). The community center is a member of the slater fire ltrg. The long-term recovery group serves survivors who lost their home in the 2020 slater fire. Slater fire programs provide cash aide, propane vouchers and heaters, free rv repair program, disaster care coordination, food distribution, home rebuild program and other services to survivors.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 64% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
- 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 16
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 98.3%; rating input score 98
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -15.6%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.17; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.9%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 26.1% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 19.6% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.4% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 98.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $94K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.