Kiwanis Club of Alameda

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
940605694
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2011–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Alameda, CA, USA
Phone
5105223937
Rating
88
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$15,358
Expenses
$18,133
Assets
$25,708

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • HENRY CHING (President)
  • DONNA MARIE FERRO (PAST PRESIDENT)
  • DAWNA DOWELL-DOS SANTOS (PRESIDENT ELECT)

People named in this filing

  • HENRY CHING (President)
  • DONNA MARIE FERRO (PAST PRESIDENT)
  • DAWNA DOWELL-DOS SANTOS (PRESIDENT ELECT)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Alameda kiwanis club is a local group of small businesses and individuals and is part of a world wide community service organization, kiwanis international. We meet weekley (virtually during the pandemic) to network and plan community service events such as park and beach cleanups and volunteering for various events benefitting youth and the community at large such as the park street art and wine fair, toys for tots, webster street jam festival, girls inc., alameda boys and girls club, alameda recreation & park department, pediatric trauma prevention, to name a few. Local guests from the non profit or business community are invited as weekly speakers. The kiwanis club also hosts awards and appreciation lunches for the alameda police and fire and for graduating eigth graders through our leadership program called hope of america.

What it reported doing in 2024

Networking, community service and fundraising for local non profit and governmental organizations.

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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 34
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -18.1%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.42; rating input score 56; 56th 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: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -3.3% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $36K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is not authorized to operate as a charity in California.