Kern County Taxpayers Education Fund Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 263021614
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2008
- Location
- Bakersfield, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6613222973
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Research Institutes and Public Policy Analysis
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $37,000
- Expenses
- $36,030
- Assets
- $19,591
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
People named in this filing
- Jaime Thornberry (Chair)
- Jess Frederick (Vice Chair)
- Robert Arnold Duchow (Secretary/Treas)
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
To research, organize, and disseminate information to educate the public and business community of Kern County, to facilitate economic growth and development, to assist in the development of visionary community leaders who recognize that a healthy business climate is necessary for a strong economy. A strong economy is essential for a vibrant community.
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
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 54% for direct work, and 46% for grants.
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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 60
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 59.2%; rating input score 59
- Program expense ratio: 60.7%; rating input score 61
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.6%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.54; rating input score 33; 33rd 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: -1.8% per year; rating input score 0; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21.6% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 59.2% of revenue deployed · 60.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $22K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 59/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.