Los Bomberos of Northern California Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 770234733
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- San Jose, CA, USA
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $33,298
- Expenses
- $37,150
- Assets
- $131,493
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHRIS COBILLAS (President)
People named in this filing
- CHRIS COBILLAS (President)
- EDDIE ROCHA (Secretary)
- DAVID E LERMA (Treasurer)
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
Los bomberos of northern California is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving fire protection and community througout santa clara county. The organization is supported by active and retired san jose fighters and collaborates with the san jose fire department and the city of san jose.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our largest annual event is our holiday toy drive, where we collct, sort, distribute toys to more than 2,500 children in our community. Through this program, we also provide school-age children with backpacks and school supplies to help them reach their education goals. In addition, we offer recruitment and skill-building classes to local men and women to inspire interest in the fire service.
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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -11.6%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.54; rating input score 78; 78th 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: Limited
- Revenue growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2014 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.