Sierra Madre Community Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 451489623
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2013
- Location
- Sierra Madre, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6263724275
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $146,104
- Expenses
- $100,541
- Assets
- $454,249
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
People named in this filing
- VICKI RYAN (BOARD CO-CHAIR)
- GREG HARMAN (CO-TREASURER)
- NICOLE JACQUEMIN (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 goal of the sierra madre community foundation (smcf) is to encourage support of the sierra madre community through philanthropic gifts. By partnering with individuals, families, businesses and organizations to help meet their charitable giving objectives, gifts to smcf can have a lasting impact on sierra madre as a community, enriching the quality of life and preserving sierra madre as a strong and vibrant place to live and work.
What it reported doing in 2025
Giving support to the sierra madre community through grants and maintenance of separate funds for those groups too small to apply for nonprofit status.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 81% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 73% for direct work, and 27% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. No material rating questions were generated from the available inputs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Sustainability: 82
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 64.5%; rating input score 65
- Program expense ratio: 89.8%; rating input score 90
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 31.2%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.52; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.4% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 64.5% of revenue deployed · 89.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $90K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.