Skills of Life Cafe
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 320648574
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Capitola, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8317137501
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Job Training
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $83,213
- Expenses
- $66,232
- Assets
- $104,795
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- James Russell (President)
- Cameron Haste (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- James Russell (President)
- Cameron Haste (Vice President)
- Axel Loelhoeffel (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 empower teens and young adults with intellectual disabilities by providing employment and life skill training that supports meaningful, independent living.
What it reported doing in 2025
Skills of Life Caf was founded in response to a clear need one for meaningful, structured, and supportive work experiences for individuals who benefit from extra time, repetition, and guided learning.We created a job training caf that bridges the gap between potential and opportunity. Interns participate in hands-on learning supported by a structured curriculum that emphasizes:- Soft skills development- Customer service and communication- Order and time management, and improvement in task completion- Team collaboration and workplace etiquetteAt Skills of Life Caf, interns are encouraged to take on real responsibilities in a cafe and supportive environment. They are given the freedom to make mistakes, the space to learn from them, and the guidance to grow. As a result, they build not only workplace skills, but also self-confidence, independence, and pride in their progress.During the calendar year, the program provided hands-on job training to 15 interns, offering each participant the opportunity to develop practical workplace skills in a supportive environment. As of April 2026, 40% of the interns trained in 2025 are now employed into competitive employment.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 89% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 61.6%; rating input score 62
- Program expense ratio: 77.4%; rating input score 77
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 20.4%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.58; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 40.8%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 61.6% of revenue deployed · 77.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $51K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.