Sees Community Fund

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
205901760
IRS 990 coverage
2018–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2020
Location
Eureka, CA, USA
Phone
7077985008
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Cancer Research

Reported finances

Revenue
$62,974
Expenses
$42,183
Assets
$197,786
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Wanda Wahlund (President)
  • Rose Gale-Zoellick (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Wanda Wahlund (President)
  • Pamela McKnight (Treasurer)
  • Rose Gale-Zoellick (Vice 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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

See's Community Fund is organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes. It is organized to raise money through See's Candy sales to: - pay for cancer screenings for uninsured or underinsured - help with transportation of cancer patients - help with emergency patient needs. - We will support other cancer related projects. - We do not pay for any treatment. - We partner with other nonprofits to help them with their projects as they help us with sales.

What it reported doing in 2024

See's Community Fund partnered with two other non-profit organizations to provide volunteer coverage 5 hours per week, five days per week (and special Saturday hours prior to big holidays) from July 1, 2024 thru June 30, 2025. Partner volunteers helped cover 1,360 hours of the candy store operations this fiscal year. In exchange, most of the non-profit organizations accepted payment of 5% of the day's sales as fundraising revenue for their own organizations. Some of these non-profit partners also provide board members and operational support for See's Community Fund. The partners were Quota Eureka and Pregnancy Care Center of Eureka.

Operating model

Revenue model
No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 92% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 64
  • Transparency & Controls: 77
  • Accountability: 18
  • Sustainability: 67
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: 84.2%; rating input score 84
  • Fundraising efficiency: $0 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 64.5%; rating input score 64; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 33%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.69; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 33.5% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 84.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 0 of 5 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $36K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 41 of 42 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes grants
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2018 to 2024
  • 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 4/100.
  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.