Oc Habitats

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
822478090
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Santa Ana, CA, USA
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Natural Resources Conservation and Protection

Reported finances

Revenue
$177,171
Expenses
$160,224
Assets
$132,182
Liabilities
$4,374

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Stacey Chartier-Grable (Past President and Treasurer)
  • Cheryl Dyas (Treasurer and President)

People named in this filing

  • Stacey Chartier-Grable (Past President and Treasurer)
  • Cheryl Dyas (Treasurer and President)
  • Susie Gottlieb (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

To provide conservation education and monitoring services for a variety of ecological habitats within Orange County California that may contain sensitive protected or listed plant or animal species.

What it reported doing in 2025

Education & Outreach - We expanded our educational programming in 2025 by serving over 5,094 individuals in 2025. We continued to partner with Girl Scouts of Orange County, OC Coastkeeper and title 1 schools in Capistrano Garden Grove Irvine Newport-Mesa Saddleback Valley and Santa Ana Unified School Districts. We expanded our hike programs overall with Santa Ana Wilderness Club and Cancer Kinship and continued our programs with Mission Viejo to serve over 400 individuals. We were asked by the City of Newport Beach to become a contracted educator and began this process at the end of 2025. Our hikes take us all over the county where we share knowledge of habitats species indigenous history and climate change issues and impacts with attendees. We participated in thirty-seven outreach events throughout the year including Earth Day events at local community colleges Anaheims OC Green Expo OCWDs Childrens Water Festival the Panhe Gathering and Mission Viejo Environmental Fair.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 64
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 52
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 62.1%; rating input score 62
  • Program expense ratio: 68%; rating input score 68

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 9.6%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.82; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 36.1% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 25.8% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 16.5% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 62.1% of revenue deployed · 68% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $109K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 54/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.