Merced County Education Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 453561850
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Merced, CA, USA
- Phone
- 2093816602
- Rating
- 40
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Nonmonetary Support N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $60,871
- Expenses
- $37,476
- Assets
- $211,219
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Nancy Young-Bergman (President)
- Steve Tinetti (Vice President)
- Stacie Arancibia (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Nancy Young-Bergman (President)
- Steve Tinetti (Vice President)
- Ellie Jorritsma (SECRETARY)
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
To benefit the merced county office of education by establishing and supporting programs and activities that maximize academic achievement and education enrichment for students within merced county; providing financial assistance by acquiring equipment and supplies for the use and benefit of the merced county office of education; assisting and supporting merced county office of education in the attainment of its educational, cultural, scientific, artistic, and technological goals and in fulfilling its role in serving students, parents, and the community of which it is a part; strengthening and supporting collaborations and partnerships among the merced county office of education, businesses, foundations and families to service the merced county office of education community; and soliciting grants, donations, charitable contributions and raising funds to support the educational endeavors of the merced county office of education.
What it reported doing in 2024
Provided scholarships to students attending college and a grants for art education to merced county school district classrooms
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 71% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 82
- Sustainability: 80
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 38.4%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.64; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -15.4% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.