Multi-Agency Support Services

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
800672086
IRS 990 coverage
2017–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2016
Location
Fountain Valley, CA, USA
Phone
9512525636
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,163,683
Expenses
$1,085,066
Assets
$351,238
Liabilities
$155,790

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Christopher Bouse (Executive Director)

Highest reported compensation

  • Christopher Bouse (Executive Director): $145,093 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

CAL-MASS Mission Statement: Our mission is to assist Federal, State and Local Public Service Agencies, as well as Community disaster preparedness groups with a multitude of services centered on today's technology. CAL-MASS will make technology, in all forms, readily available and offer support through disasters and emergencies as well as their standard operational processes.LACRTC Mission Statement: Our mission is to provide public agencies with the highest quality and most cost-effective training avalable.

What it reported doing in 2025

Training Programs: Through its training affiliate, the Los Angeles County Regional Training Center(LACRTC), which was established in November 2014 LACRTC has trained over 650 sworn and civilian public service employees in the use of Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Dispatcher Survival, Internet Investigations, Restoring Public Trust Through Social Media and Cyber Operations to name a few. In addition, LACRTC has become a certified training presenter for the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services(CAL-OES), the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training(POST), and the California Board of State and Community Corrections(STC). Through CAL-OES, LACRTC has developed and is the sole trainer for a premier emergency response course which was certified by POST and the Department of Homeland Security. This course is managed and taught nation-wide through LACRTC.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 67
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 84
  • Sustainability: 33
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 72.7%; rating input score 73
  • Program expense ratio: 78%; rating input score 78
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 6.8%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.32; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.44; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 13.4%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 20.5% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 21.7% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 22.3% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 72.7% of revenue deployed · 78% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $847K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $145K · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 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.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 28/100.