Old Pueblo Lapidary Club Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 860274766
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Tucson, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 5203239154
- Rating
- 63
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $56,664
- Expenses
- $44,010
- Assets
- $392,919
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jack McCabe (President)
- Chuck Lundstrom (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Jack McCabe (President)
- Chuck Lundstrom (Vice President)
- Bill Penrose (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
Primary purpose is to teach members techniques and safety practices for Lapidary and Faceting and Silversmith. Students are taught how to cut and shape and polish minerals into decorative pieces. Using these pieces students are taught how to make jeweler and other items using silversmith and casting techniques. For gem stones students are taught how to design and cut the gem stones for use in jewelry making.
What it reported doing in 2025
1. Lapidary training teaches students the techniques and safety practices needed to cut and shape and polish and finish stones minerals into decorative or functional pieces. Instruction covers material identification and tool selection and maintenance. Modules emphasize surface preparation and grinding sequences and sanding grits and polishing compounds. 365 member's benefited. 2.Faceting training focuses on the precise cutting and indexing and polishing of gemstone facets to produce well proportioned and optically excellent stones. The course combines theory (optics, gem material properties, facet design) with hands on instruction using faceting machines and laps and DOP systems and and polishing compounds. 100 members benefited. 3. Silversmith training teaches the skills to design and shape and join and texture and cast and finish silver into wearable and decorative objects. The course blends metalworking fundamentals and tool use and casting techniques and finishing techniques with hands on projects that build from basic forms to more complex pieces. 80 members benefited.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 66% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- 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 a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 53
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 76
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 49.5%; rating input score 49
- Program expense ratio: 59.4%; rating input score 59
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 22.3%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 8.93; rating input score 91; 91st 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: 49.5% of revenue deployed · 59.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $26K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 49/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 59/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.