Sunset Beach Community Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237103804
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Sunset Beach, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7148407077
- Rating
- 63
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Neighborhood, Block Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $23,517
- Expenses
- $23,107
- Assets
- $385,338
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KEVIN PAULSON (President)
- TONY NOBLES (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- KEVIN PAULSON (President)
- TONY NOBLES (Vice President)
- DAWN MCCORMICK (Secretary)
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
1. Educate residents and visitors of Sunset Beach regarding governmental issues, recreational activities, and safety procedures of this community, thereby lessening the burden of government and promoting social welfare. The organization is open to everyone in the general public who is interested in Sunset Beach. No membership is required.2. Operate, maintain and improve the Community Lot and Building which are available to the public for charitable, educational, emergency center, and recreational activities.3. Raise funds with the assistance of other non-profit organizations for scholarships, art programs in local schools, non-profit charities, and the maintenance and operation of its community property.4. As a beachside, tourist destination, assess community residents and visitors' needs, organize funding opportunities, and provide a liaison between the Sunset Beach community and its surrounding governmental agencies.
What it reported doing in 2025
Operated, maintained and improved public community building and lot in order to provide recreational areas, monthly meeting areas, and programs to the public including Annual Pancake Breakfast and Disaster Preparedness Expo, Halloween Party, and Movie Nights. This property was also used to host charitable fundraisers including the Annual Mother's Day Art festival, Woman's Club Chili Cook-off and Rock Festival. Monthly meetings included educational forums with speakers from the Huntington Beach Police Dept. and provided a venue for residents and visitors to address the recent homeless and grafitti issues. Thousands of people attended the Art Festival and Halloween Party as documented in local newspapers.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 90% 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 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: 49
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 53%; rating input score 53
- Program expense ratio: 41.8%; rating input score 42
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.7%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 16.68; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5.6% per year; rating input score 0; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 53% of revenue deployed · 41.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $10K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2016 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 53/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 42/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 48/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.