Old Sacramento Waterfront
Legal name: Old Sacramento Business Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 200623242
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2015
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2014, Form 990-EZ 2015
- Location
- Sacramento, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9164428575
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Boards of Trade
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $197,625
- Expenses
- $265,642
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2015. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
People named in this filing
- Sean Derfield (Director)
- Michael Coyne (Director)
- Terry Harvego (Chairman)
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 2015. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Old Sacramento Waterfront lives on as a thriving shopping and entertainment district as well as a global tourist destination. On 2nd St. between between K and L, next the California Military Museum. Open until 9 p.m. (until 5 p.m. on Mondays) On Neasham Cir. at Front inside the Tower Bridge Parking Garage. On Front St. between J and K in the Sacramento Southern Railroad Station. Open until 5 p.m. Due to past and current efforts by the State of California, private and public museums, individuals, business, the City and County of Sacramento, the Historic Old Sacramento Foundations, scores of volunteers, and many others, Old Sacramento Waterfront lives on as thriving shopping and entertainment district as well as a global tourist destination. History 1w-ca-sa1-1850.
What it reported doing in 2015
MARKETING - PROMOTE OLD SACRAMENTO AS A PLACE TO VISIT AND SHOP THROUGH PUBLIC RELATIONS, ADVERTISING, PROMOTIONS AND EVENTS. The organization produces The Theatre of Lights each holiday season. It is a twice nightly show free to the public that highlights the history of the area and attracts 50,000 local and regional visitors. Merchant directories are produced four times per year (20,000 each run) and are distributed free to visitors in the district. The organization places paid print and radio advertising that promotes the area's shopping, dining and event activities.
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
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 3
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -34.4%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 22.1%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -22.2% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -79.9% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 18 people listed
- Consistency: 4 of 4 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.