The Compass of Madera
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 884415401
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Madera, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5592322304
- Rating
- 43
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Nutrition
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $77,328
- Expenses
- $29,981
- Assets
- $47,347
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANDREA HERRERAMATA (CEO)
People named in this filing
- ANDREA HERRERAMATA (CEO)
- RAQUEL RODARTE (CFO)
- LILIA ALANIZ (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
Consumer education care assistance and outreach services throughout madera county. Providing culturally sensitive multilingual support. Increase awareness of available resources and services.
What it reported doing in 2025
Focuses on consumer education care assistance and outreach services throughout madera county. Providing culturally sensitive, multilingual support to help consumers understand telecommunications related topics, resolve billing or service issues, and increase awareness of available resources, assisting approx. 2000 people
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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 76
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 8.3%; rating input score 8
- Program expense ratio: 21.4%; rating input score 21
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 61.2%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.58; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 8.3% of revenue deployed · 21.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $6K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 8/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 21/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.