Cuyamaca Outdoor School
Legal name: San Diego County Outdoor Education Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 202186308
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- El Cajon, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6199335224
- Rating
- 63
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $27,947
- Expenses
- $36,323
- Assets
- $184,041
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Greg Schuett (President)
People named in this filing
- Greg Schuett (President)
- Jane Linquist (Treasurer)
- Domenique Maj (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
Connecting Kids to Science and Nature Since 1946
What it reported doing in 2025
In this year of transition to an active growth model, SDCOEF provided $2,720 in direct funding to bring 70 student to camp, plus awarded the Cuyamaca Outdoor School $700 toward program technology purchases.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 43% for direct work, and 57% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 39
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 45.1%; rating input score 45
- Program expense ratio: 27.5%; rating input score 28
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: -30%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.07; rating input score 84; 84th 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: -4.9% per year; rating input score 0; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.8% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 45.1% of revenue deployed · 27.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $10K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2011 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 45/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 28/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.