Nor Cal Oaks
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 871223967
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Santa Rosa, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7074841352
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $135,811
- Expenses
- $157,064
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JASON CHICKERING (CEO)
- JON TITUS (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JASON CHICKERING (CEO)
- ALYSSA NOONE (CFO)
- JENNIFER TITUS (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
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What it reported doing in 2025
The corporation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to developing skilled players who want to excel in the game of baseball or softball while attining strong character and maturity in a positive environment. All players who wish to play travel baseball or softball should have the opportunity to do so regardless of financial circumstances. The guiding principles of the organization include creating a fun safe and competitive environment for youth to play baseball or softball. Discipline teamwork sportsmanship and teaching proper compeitiveness is developed amongst players by achieving team and personal goals. The organization also develops and supports coaching that upholds the objectives and principles of the nor cal oaks while at the same time utilizes the principles of positive coaching.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 15
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.7%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 86.2%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 76.9%; rating input score 77; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: -15.6%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -21.3% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -27.7% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.9% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 99.7% of revenue deployed · 86.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $156K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 14/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.