Monterey County Sheriffs Posse Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 941534198
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2021
- Location
- Salinas, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8314228112
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $314,187
- Expenses
- $272,634
- Assets
- $475,273
- Liabilities
- $13,000
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Carl Pacheco (President)
- Richard Holland (President & CEO)
People named in this filing
- Johnny Morgan (Board of Direct)
- Bill Grossen (Director)
- Wayne Farrell (Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Rodeos & horsemanship for public benefit.
What it reported doing in 2024
Miscellaneous posse programs -- The organization uses its facilities to conduct roping, team penning, cattle sorting and other exhibitions for horsemen in the Central California region. The facilities are one of the few in the tri-county area, and serve as a promotion of the Junior and California Rodeos.The organization also conducts a number of rodeos, carnivals and concerts throughout the year.The posse permitted local 4H groups with over 100 children to use the facilities.The organization administers an annual scholarship for higher education for a local youth with demonstrated economic need and a college major in law enforcement, agriculture, or animal husbandry.The facilities are an integral part of horse and sensitivity training for the Monterey County Sheriff's Mounted Search and Rescue Team. This organization has members consisting of volunteers of the posse, as well as deputies employed by the Monterey County Sheriff's Department.Monterey County Elections Department has used the facilities as the polling location for the local precinct for elections.The organization allows the State of California High School District 4 to use the facilities for hundreds of Central California high school students participating in high school rodeos that are held several times throughout the year.Lastly, over 100 employees and volunteers of the Monterey County Sheriff's Department used the unique facilities for training and meetings during 2017..
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 6
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 94.3%; rating input score 94
- 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 13.2%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.74; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.5% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.8% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 89% of revenue deployed · 94.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 15 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $257K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 19 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 37/100.