Santa Cruz 4 Wheel Drive Club

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
365103104
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Phone
8313313311
Rating
34
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Fund Raising and Fund Distribution

Reported finances

Revenue
$11,030
Expenses
$20,865
Assets
$2,314
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Gary Rowe (President)
  • Dariusz Smigiel (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Gary Rowe (President)
  • Dariusz Smigiel (Vice President)
  • Jessica Giuffre (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

The Santa Cruz Four Wheel Drive Club (SC4WDC) is a nonprofit organization operating exclusively for charitable purposes under section 501c(3) of the IRS code. Our mission is to promote responsible outdoor recreation while supporting charitable causes that align with our values of conservation, education and community support.

What it reported doing in 2025

The Santa Cruz Four Wheel Drive Club (SC4WDC) is a non profit organization committed to responsible out door recreation, trail conservation and community support. Through our fundraising efforts and club activities, we provide financial assistance to organizations that align with our mission of preserving public land access and supporting children in need.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 87% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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

REVIEW - 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: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 22
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -89.2%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.11; rating input score 13; 13th 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: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -29.7% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -137.6% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.