Sierra Chaplaincy

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
930786513
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2014–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2017, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Placerville, CA, USA
Phone
5306211036
Rating
86
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$128,081
Expenses
$138,756
Assets
$187,953
Liabilities
$32,489

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JIM HOGAN (Vice President)
  • BRIAN LOCKHARDT (President)

People named in this filing

  • JIM HOGAN (Vice President)
  • LLOYD OGAN (Executive Dir)
  • DAVE LAWRENCE (Treasurer)

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

To provide Care, Comfort and Hope to first responders and those experiencing a tragedy or tragic event.

What it reported doing in 2025

Serving First Responders and citizens in the City of Folsom, El Dorado County and Amador County who are dealing with emotional and spiritual trauma by deploying trained Chaplains equipped to provide compassion, information, practical assistance, and safety in time of crisis. This program services the needs of all law enforcement individuals who work in the service areas. It is an ecumenical ministry that responds to the needs of victims, and officers regardless of religion, belief, denominational background, or lack thereof.It responds to the needs the sworn personnel serving in law enforcement, as well as the needs of crime victims, auto fatalities, emergency medical services, suicide victims and other cases. The program has been able to acquire pastors who serve churches in the area to provide a corp. of Reserve Chaplains who respond to these diverse needs and assist the Senior Chaplain when he is not available.

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
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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 36
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

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 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.35; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.17; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -2.1% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -5.7% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $139K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2025
  • 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.

  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.