The Lions Club of West Marin Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
943004586
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2019
Location
Point Reyes Station, CA, USA
Phone
4154972055
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$57,491
Expenses
$88,627
Assets
$562,766
Liabilities
$873

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Larry Brown (Vice President)
  • Angelo Sacheli (President)

People named in this filing

  • Larry Brown (Vice President)
  • Angelo Sacheli (President)
  • Frank Truttman Jr (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To empower volunteers to serve our local communities, meet humanitarian needs, encourage peace and promote international understanding through the West Marin Lions Club.

What it reported doing in 2025

The West Marin Lions Club holds monthly in-person meetings as well as via Zoom for those who are not able to attend in person. This provides more flexibility, and has resulted in more attendance at many of our meetings.Renewed energy and interest within the Club continues. The West Marin Lions participated in several health fairs this year and conducted vision screenings for adults and youth within the community. Significant funding from theLions Club of West Marin continues to be directed annually to youth services programming at the West Marin Community Services. The West Marin Lions Club continues to partner with Point Reyes Rotary and others to operate the youth center in Tomales; activities for local youth in Tomales take place at the Tomales Town Hall. As is the case each year, the Lions collected eyeglasses to send to our district eyeglass warehouse center; these eyeglasses are repaired and repurposed for distribution to people who are not able to afford new eyewear.The West Marin Lions Club continues to act as the fiscal sponsor for the Sembrando Vida project, an activity that isfocused on growing food and community within the local Latino community. The Sembrando Vida project hasdeveloped over the past year with infrastructure improvements and the planting of fruit trees and tomatos. Through the fiscal sponsorship arrangement, the West Marin Lions Club continues to help the project to move forward and grow.The Lions Club of West Marin continued our annual giving to several Tomales High School programs including the Boosters Club and the Class of 2027 Food Fundraiser held at Western Weekend. Additionally, support was provided to national programs (Lion in Sight and Lions Canine Companions for Independence.)The West Marin Lions sponsored the annual Western Weekend Parade which took place in June. This years parade continued to celebrate the agricultural roots of West Marin. Once again, attendance at this years parade matchedpre-pandemic levels with a large crowd enjoying the festivities. Members of the West Marin Lions also helped plan overall Western Weekend activities and donated many hours, along with other organizations and local stakeholders, to make Western Weekend a success.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 84% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 68% for direct work, and 32% for grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 85
  • Transparency & Controls: 85
  • Accountability: 76
  • Sustainability: 38
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 88.4%; rating input score 88
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 87.9%; rating input score 88; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -54.2%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.35; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -4.6% per year; rating input score 0; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -3.9% per year; rating input score 0; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -1.5% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 88.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $78K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 16 of 17 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.