The Civic Literacy and Service Project

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
330619556
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2014–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
Location
Truckee, CA, USA
Phone
9164251151
Rating
40
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$40,135
Expenses
$76,078
Assets
$10,000

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • RICK LEACH (President)

People named in this filing

  • PAULA ASH (Executive Dir.)
  • RICK LEACH (President)
  • DIANE KOLETZKE (SECRETARY/TREAS)

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

Assist environmental, social change, cultural, and service organizations by facilitating, organizing and producing benefit concerts, rallies, receptions and media campaigns

What it reported doing in 2025

Assist environmental, social change, cultural, and service organizations by facilitating, organizing and producing benefit concerts, rallies, receptions and media campaigns. Helped organize the use of biodiesel fuel and other energy related issues on the commercial tours of Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, and other artists. Serve as a sounding board for ideas and act as an information service for members of celebrity community. Coordinate events ranging from very large outdoor rallies with an attendance in excess of 850,000 people, to receptions from 200 to 600 people in attendance, in addition to assisting in information tabling for the above mentioned commercial summer tours.

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
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 13
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 15
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 15.8%; rating input score 16
  • Program expense ratio: 8.3%; rating input score 8

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -89.6%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.13; rating input score 15; 15th 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: -21.3% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -4.4% per year; rating input score 0; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -4.5% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 15.8% of revenue deployed · 8.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $6K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 16/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 8/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.