North County Project
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 473957838
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Placentia, CA, USA
- Phone
- 714.328.5064
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $391,524
- Expenses
- $352,919
- Assets
- $260,230
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JIM STEPHENSON (BOARD PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- NICK WARD (CO-DIRECTOR): $93,819 total reported compensation
- KEN SCHEMMER II (CO-DIRECTOR): $93,818 total reported compensation
- ALAN AMAVISCA (FOUNDER): $74,034 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We are followers of Jesus committed to sharing the good news of Jesus across North OC and making disciples who make disciples. When we first began to sense God’s call to create North County Project, EFCSW provided valuable back office support and have continued to offer counsel and office resources. Although Gateway is in Diamond Bar, Gateway Friends Church was very excited about the vision of North County Project and the implications our ministries could have for churches beyond North Orange County. They became early supporters of our vision and a great encouragement—which is consistent with the heart of this vibrant, mission-focused fellowship.
What it reported doing in 2024
Training and outreach: our goal this year was to focus on training more people and therebyexpand our outreach throughout north orange county. As far as thetraining we trained 22 people for personal evangelism, 5 new prayerwalkers, started 15 new disciple-making communities, trained 27 newevangelists at cal state university of fullerton or beyound (including ourapprentices). Our outreach was focused on sharing the gospel withindividuals - both in one-on-one conversations and in groups. Our totalwas 286 people we personally shared the gospel with this last year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
STRONG - 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 77
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.4%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 90.3%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: $52.22 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 77.8%; rating input score 78; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.9%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.74; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 74.1%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 24.4% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 81.4% of revenue deployed · 90.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 9 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $319K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $94K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.