Santa Monica Mountains Regional Fire Safe Council
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 934806101
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Calabasas, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8189641847
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fire Prevention
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $135,262
- Expenses
- $123,991
- Assets
- $62,143
- Liabilities
- $50,872
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Pauline Allen (Executive Director)
- Haddee Hammoud (President)
People named in this filing
- Pauline Allen (Executive Director)
- Danielle Picciano (Director of Programs)
- Haddee Hammoud (President)
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
Public education and outreach for wildfire mitigation
What it reported doing in 2024
Firewise USA is a program that provides communities an outline of simple and effective steps to reduce the risk of destruction from wildfires. We offer support with initial inquiries, application support, risk assessments, educational services, etc. A home ignition zone evaluation (HIZ) is a review of the vulnerability of your house and landscape to wildfire and ember-ignition. We offer FREE HIZs. Community Workdays - During the Community Workday, neighbors help neighbors create an ember resistant zone and learn how to install 1/16in mesh screens on vents. SMMFSC works with resident leaders to coordinate the block-party style workday. Must be within a FIREWISE Community to be eligible. The SMMFSC supported a community-led defensible space through habitat restoration program on Entrada Road in Topanga. A dedicated group of neighbors banded together to transform an overgrown dry grass hillside into a budding oak grove. A piece of state park land was dense with invasives, leaving the neighborhood surrounded by dry fuels that could erupt in the face of a wildfire. Local leaders devoted time and energy to obtaining permits, raising funds, and finalizing plans. The area was cleared of non-native species and replaced. Along with the SMMFSC, a group of volunteers spent a day planting native species including scrub oaks, coast live oaks, and toyon shrubs. The hillside is now a budding oak grove that will grow to protect the street for years to come.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 85% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 93
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.3%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 98.5%; rating input score 98
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.3%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.5; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.82; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.8%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 90.3% of revenue deployed · 98.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $122K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.