Startree107 Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 202398484
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2007
- Location
- Costa Mesa, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9496755778
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $100,679
- Expenses
- $115,967
- Assets
- $44,888
- Liabilities
- $2,426
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRENT KAHLEN (CEO)
People named in this filing
- BRENT KAHLEN (CEO)
- SQUIRE BURKE (DIRECTOR)
- MARIE CASE (DIRECTOR)
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 use our unique position as an alternative broadcaster to offer local community leaders, enviromental groups, advocates, event planners and others active in the field an opportunity for greater public exposure than they might ortherwise receive through existing commercial media.
What it reported doing in 2025
Promtotion of concert events, working with sundry local enviromental and civic groups to further promote these and other beneficial pubic events for which we have provided free coverage.
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 total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 59
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 62.2%; rating input score 62
- Program expense ratio: 54%; rating input score 54
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -15.2%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.39; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 62.2% of revenue deployed · 54% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $63K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 54/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.