Smoke Eagles Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 956052300
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Newport Beach, CA, USA
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $112,359
- Expenses
- $123,563
- Assets
- $192,867
- Liabilities
- $112,745
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ray Stratton (President)
- Cameron LA Font (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Ray Stratton (President)
- Cameron LA Font (Vice President)
- Robert Friednthal (Operations)
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
Fostered and promoted interest in aviation by providing facilities whereby members may receive experience, training and instruction in flying general aviation aircraft.
What it reported doing in 2024
30 persons benefited. Also provided a healthful and otherwise beneficial recreation and diversion through the media of flying general aviation aircraft.
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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
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: -10%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.56; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.58; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 30.6% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $124K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2016 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.