Sacramento Valley Organizing Community

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
680277842
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2014–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Vallejo, CA, USA
Phone
7073090018
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Education N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$55,119
Expenses
$24,526
Assets
$161,861
Liabilities
$355

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Allison Mezzera (President)

People named in this filing

  • Cheryl Gewing (Secretary)
  • David Lindsay (Treasurer)
  • Sylvina Frausto (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

SVOC forms alliances with various religious and community organizations located in the Northern California counties of Sacramento, Solano and Yolo, in order to organize and promote efforts for the employment, health and welfare, citizenship and housing of low-income persons.

What it reported doing in 2025

In 2025, SVOCs accomplishments were related to public safety and homelessness prevention: Public Safety As a result of nearly two years of active engagement, the city of Vallejo formed the Citizenss Police Oversight Commission. Two Public Safety team members of Common Ground became members of the commission. Training has been completed and one Common Ground member is the vice-chair of the committee. Housing and Homelessness Prevention The Common Ground Housing Team is partnering with the Vallejo Housing Justice Coalition, Legal Services of Northern California, Public Advocates and others to implement renter protections and housing supply issues to help reduce the number of people who become homeless. Many meetings with Vallejo council members and staff in support of this work.

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
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 63% of its reported program spending out as grants.

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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 53
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 79
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 36.3%; rating input score 36
  • Program expense ratio: 81.5%; rating input score 81

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 55.5%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.6; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -2.7% per year; rating input score 0; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9.7% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 36.3% of revenue deployed · 81.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $20K 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: 12 filing years from 2014 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 36/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.