La Canada Flintridge Chamber of Commerce and Community Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 952284605
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- La Canada Flintridge, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8187904289
- Rating
- 44
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $236,709
- Expenses
- $229,414
- Assets
- $182,160
- Liabilities
- $403
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
27 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PATRICIA A ANDERSON (President & CEO)
- LINDA ROTH (Vice President)
- GREG COOK (Vice President)
- GREG BROWN (Vice President)
- ARA MARKARI (Vice President)
- SUZANNE E JENSEN (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- PATRICIA A ANDERSON (President & CEO): $72,747 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To promote the commercial, residential, civic and economic interests of la canada flintridge, and other customary functions of a chamber of commerce.
What it reported doing in 2025
Co-sponsored monthly mixers with approximately 9 member businesses hosting to encourage interaction among business owners, residents and city officials. Also made announcements and discussed chamber business. Estimated monthly attendance is 50 members and guests.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 63
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
- 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: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.1%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.79; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 31.7%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 24 of 24 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $73K · 27 people listed
- Consistency: 12 of 13 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 43/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.