Oakland Radio Communication Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 943319294
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Berkeley, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6178039413
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $51,962
- Expenses
- $15,258
- Assets
- $48,761
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Christiaan Adams (President)
- Doug Mosher (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Christiaan Adams (President)
- Doug Mosher (Vice President)
- Scott Nelson (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Oakland Radio Communication Association is a nonprofit public benefit corporation whose purpose is to provide public service and education in the fields of amateur radio and emergency communications, through activities which promote, encourage and coordinate Amateur Radio activity in and around the city of Oakland, including: maintaining an effective volunteer emergency communications capability; advancing the knowledge, operating skill, and technical skill of amateur radio operators; and serving and educating others in our communities.
What it reported doing in 2025
Established four Emergency Communication Hubs in underserved neighborhoods in Oakland, including radio equipment caches and training of local operators.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 85% 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 and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 36
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 81
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 19%; rating input score 19
- Program expense ratio: 64.7%; rating input score 65
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: 70.6%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.2; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 19% of revenue deployed · 64.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $10K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 19/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.