Redwood Shores Community Association

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
941720972
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Redwood City, CA, USA
Rating
87
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$118,339
Expenses
$122,197
Assets
$117,403

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Don Long (President)
  • Rona Gundrum (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Don Long (President)
  • Rona Gundrum (Vice President)
  • Kendra Bronstein (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 encourage and promote a safe and healthful environment for family life. To advocate fairness in taxation in the District. To encourage responsible growth of property in the District. To disseminate by newsletter and other means information of significance to the District and members of the Association. To present social cultural and other events for the membership and the community and other activities of community interest.

What it reported doing in 2025

Line 28-32 74,188 1. COMMUNICATIONS to the Redwood Shores community are through these primary channels: a As required by our 1970 Articles of Incorporation and current Bylaws RSCA may publish a month newsletter The PILOT funded by membership contributions and sponsorship from local businesses. The PILOT is distributed by postal mail to ~6,000 homes apartments and businesses in the ZIP Codes 94065 & 94002. Opinions published in the PILOT are the opinions of the authors and not expressions of the Redwood Shores Community Association unless so designated. b Postal mail and email notifications of special events. c Roadway median signboards at the entrances to the residential areas of the Shores on site since January 1980 with information about local events both those sponsored by RSCA and other local organizations school events and public safety issues. d Continuing development of the RSCA. org web site & email systems with more current information on local events.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 69% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 35
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -3.3%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.96; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 11.8% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -9.6% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -10.6% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $148K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • 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 — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.