Kern County Sheriffs Employee Welfare & Benefit Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 956097324
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Bakersfield, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6613917618
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $129,786
- Expenses
- $73,796
- Assets
- $1,663,410
- Liabilities
- $7,184
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANNA ALVARENGA (Vice President)
- JOCELYN WOLTER (President)
People named in this filing
- GRACE RODRIGUEZ (Director)
- ANNA ALVARENGA (Vice President)
- JOCELYN WOLTER (President)
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
To provide insurance and death benefits for members, and advance their social, and educational welfare.
What it reported doing in 2025
Advance the social, economic, and educational welfare of the members
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 63% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 71% for direct work, and 29% for member benefits.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 60
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 83
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 47.6%; rating input score 48
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 43.1%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 22.54; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.9% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 47.6% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $74K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 19 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 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 48/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.