Pepper Tree Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 953674794
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Rolling Hills Estates, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3103771577
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $45,105
- Expenses
- $37,045
- Assets
- $96,654
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GREG GRAMMER (CEO)
People named in this filing
- DEBBY STEGURA (CHAIR)
- FRANK Z ZERUNYAN (VICE CHAIR)
- BRITT HUFF (DIRECTOR)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Sponsor special events & activities (public benefit)
What it reported doing in 2024
Special events & activities that benefit the citizens of several communities on the palos verdes peninsula area of los angeles county.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 69% 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 program spending has grown recently. 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: 46
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 69
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 44.1%; rating input score 44
- Program expense ratio: 48.3%; rating input score 48
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: 17.9%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.61; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.8% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.6% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.1% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 44.1% of revenue deployed · 48.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $18K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- 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 44/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 48/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.