South Skyline Fire Safe Council

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
264280449
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
Location
La Honda, CA, USA
Phone
4088673205
Rating
64
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Fire Prevention

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$175,555
Expenses
$58,922
Assets
$135,875
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Jane Manning (President)

People named in this filing

  • John Drew (Board Member)
  • Monty Boyer (Secretary)
  • Larry Watson (Board Member)

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 education, assistance and outreach programs for Fire Prevention and preparedness to all South Skyline Residents within the council area in order to prevent the loss of lives and reduce losses of personal and public property and natural resources from wildfire

What it reported doing in 2025

We received a grant from CalFire to conduct a major fuels reduction project along Portola State Park Road and Upper Page Mill Road. All of the work was completed in 2024, most of the bills were paid that year, but only a small portion of the moneys were received in 2024, the balance of the grant was received in early 2025, when we had only a small amount of expenses.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% 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 revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 52
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 86
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 30.2%; rating input score 30
  • Program expense ratio: 89.9%; rating input score 90

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 66.4%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.31; rating input score 83; 83rd 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: -3.4% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -10.1% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 15.1% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 30.2% of revenue deployed · 89.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $53K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 30/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.