The Matt Garcia Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
263904201
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2013–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Fairfield, CA, USA
Phone
7073724160
Rating
56
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Community Foundations

Reported finances

Revenue
$46,810
Expenses
$47,622
Assets
$94,996

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

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • TERESA COURTEMANCHE (President)
  • ANDY RAMIREZ (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • TERESA COURTEMANCHE (President)
  • ANDY RAMIREZ (Vice President)
  • MELINDA INGRAM (Treasurer)

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

Support youth, stop crime & strengthen community

What it reported doing in 2025

Community events- support our community by sponsoring various events to promote positivity and involvement. A monthly community clean-up of different areas in fairfiled with foundation members and community volunteers. The matt garcia foundation will provide gloves, garbage pickers and buckets for collecting the trash. Students can earn community service hours. Lunch is provided after clean-up. Participate in downtown fairfield events- tomato festival, downtown fairfield holiday tree lighting, winter extravaganza, and hereos to helpers. 25 students are selected from the matt garcia career and college academy. Each student receives a $100 target gift card and is partnered with a fairfield police officer or fairfield fire department officer to shop at target. The foundation members facilitate the event. The foundation donates the use of office space for a once-a-month meeting of the homicide survivor's support group.

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
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. 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: 39
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 44
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 38.9%; rating input score 39
  • Program expense ratio: 38.2%; rating input score 38

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 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.99; rating input score 65; 65th 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: -3.4% per year; rating input score 0; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -1.7% per year; rating input score 0; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 38.9% of revenue deployed · 38.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $18K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2013 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 39/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 38/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.