Northern California Branch American Assoc for Laboratory Animal Science
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 943114517
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- San Leandro, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5102092891
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Wildlife Preservation, Protection
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $61,778
- Expenses
- $49,153
- Assets
- $91,460
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Olayemi Aderinto (President)
- Victor Gemora (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Gina Alvino (Secretary)
- Olayemi Aderinto (President)
- Hannah Skolnik (Member. Comm.)
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
NCB-AALAS is a not-for-profit, volunteer educational association dedicated to the advancement of laboratory animal science through the dissemination of knowledge and promotion of expertise in the responsible care and use of laboratory animals. Anyone interested in research animals for scientific investigation may join this association. Our organization provides high quality, affordable educational opportunities, technical training, and resources for career development and professional certification to its members, some of whom might otherwise not have access to these types of learning and networking opportunities. The educational programs emphasize the appropriate handling, care, and use of laboratory animals, preparation for AALAS certification exams, improving knowledge in technical areas, and helping to meet training mandates of regulatory agencies. Many San Francisco Bay Area research facilities require AALAS certification for hiring or advancement. NCB-AALAS provides, and heavily
What it reported doing in 2025
NCB-AALAS membership includes more than 600 clinical veterinarians, technicians, technologists, educators, business people, researchers, administrators, animal producers, national and international experts. Our 2025 activities included: Aside from all the other membership benefits NCB-AALAS offers, they also provided its members with the option to purchase substantially discounted subscriptions ($20 annual fee - approximately one-tenth the cost of an individual subscription) to the AALAS Learning Library (ALL), which includes access to its over 70 online courses for technicians, veterinarians, facility managers, ethics committee members, and researchers that work with animals in a research or education setting. 56 members took advantage of our organizational license in 2025. The NCB-AALAS website includes educational resources, job listings, links to commercial vendors, as well as past and present events. The NCB-AALAS Board of Directors held quarterly meetings on the following dates: February 7, 2025 May 16, 2025 July 18, 2025 October 10, 2025
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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. Reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 62.1%; rating input score 62
- Program expense ratio: 78%; rating input score 78
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 20.4%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.86; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 62.1% of revenue deployed · 78% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $38K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2013 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.