Nonprofit Alliance of Monterey County
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 883680357
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2025
- Location
- Monterey, CA, USA
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Leadership Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $59,831
- Expenses
- $51,894
- Assets
- $569
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Nonprofit Alliance (Executive DIrector)
- Edward Allen (Board President)
People named in this filing
- Nonprofit Alliance (Executive DIrector)
- Edward Allen (Board President)
- Lisa Griffin Burns (Co-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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of Nonprofit Alliance of Monterey County is to provide nonprofit leaders senior staff board members and dedicated supporters with the latest research training and networking opportunities that will help them achieve their goals. Our agency was founded by Harden Foundation in 1985 Today we support more than 500 nonprofits throughout our five supervisorial districts -- by providing free or low-cost access to various programs throughout the year that expand their reach and deepen their impact. Our primary focus is helping our nonprofits learn more about and become more adept at best practices in community engagement research finance and fundraising as well as program development implementation and promotion. Collectively we all benefit.
What it reported doing in 2025
Name of Program: Community Engagement We have served more than 100 nonprofits in our region through workshops throughout the year featuring trainers and speakers who are expert in our communitys issues strategies that work and formats that are engaging and memorable. Our members are leaders who collectively develop their capacity to respond positively and proactively individually and in cohorts as feasible. They regularly provide great feedback throughout the year regarding what theyve learned how they will improve their programs as well as recommendations for us to further strengthen our presentations and training. We recruit and provide stipends to local experts e.g local reporters people most impacted by the issues at hand and people who are the most involved in finding developing and implementing good solutions to the most pressing challenges. This next year we will provide at least two workshops in each of our five supervisorial districts with both in person and zoom options available for both trainers and nonprofit leaders. We are creating a formal follow up process both in short term regarding the training and then in a longer format regarding the continuing impact and ideas for further improvements to our program as well as ideas for further collaboration. At least one of our programs this coming year will focus on how to develop greater integration with the wisdom and experience of our colleagues in the private sector public sector and the school systems for the greatest possible outcomes in the years ahead. All the progress we have made in the past several years are now helping us have much greater overall reach and impact.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 89% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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. 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: 53
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 50.1%; rating input score 50
- Program expense ratio: 57.8%; rating input score 58
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13.3%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.01; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 100.2%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -35% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -96.2% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 50.1% of revenue deployed · 57.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $30K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 50/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 58/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.