Southeast Fresno Community Economic Development Assn
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 451467295
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2012
- Location
- Fresno, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5594787877
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public, Societal Benefit
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $149,787
- Expenses
- $128,207
- Assets
- $32,647
- 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
- Jose Leon Barraza (Chief Executive Officer)
People named in this filing
- John Z Leal (Board Chair)
- Jose Luis Barraza (Chief Financial Officer Treasurer)
- Jose Leon Barraza (Chief Executive Officer)
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 mission of the Southeast Fresno Community Economic Development Association (SEFCEDA) is a community economic development platform to advance and promote prosperity and to improve quality of life for all residents and businesses through engagement, education, and an action plan that executes and enriches cultural identity and attract new residents, employers and investors to Southeast Fresno. Workforce Development and Job Placement. This year SEFCEDA continues to make referrals of Southeast Fresno low-income residents to training institutions and training providers like union organizations. The goal is to improve the skills of local residents to improve their earning power and to place them in better paying jobs in our community. Another project in our community includes the beautification of the Cesar Chavez Boulevard through grants provided by the Fresno Area Hispanic Foundation in low income communities. SEFCEDA continues to participate in the improvement of parks in Fresno.
What it reported doing in 2025
CREATION OF A NEW PARK AND RECREATION OPPORTUNITIES. SEFCEDA continues to recruit volunteers for the upkeep of a 49-care vacant park site. SEFCEDA has been cleaning up this site and it is ready to continue to plant new trees on this site and other park sites. Through the participation of residents and SEFCEDA, the City of Fresno has committed to fund the construction of the first phase of a Regional Park and Soccer Complex on this site. This park will improve air quality in this region and improve the health of low-income residents who will use this park. Funding for the construction of a new park on this site has been approved by the City of Fresno. SEFCEDA also has assisted the City fo Fresno in community outreach programs to increase public participation in identifyiing new park improvements and the review of cultural master plan.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 50
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 47.2%; rating input score 47
- Program expense ratio: 55.2%; rating input score 55
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14.4%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.25; rating input score 23; 23rd 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: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 47.2% of revenue deployed · 55.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $71K 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 2016 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 47/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 55/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.