The Trash Punx
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 871833625
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- San Jose, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4088026584
- Rating
- 61
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Environmental Beautification and Aesthetics
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $264,322
- Expenses
- $273,141
- Assets
- $116,608
- Liabilities
- $1,693
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JUSTIN IMAMURA (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- JUSTIN IMAMURA (CEO): $49,600 total reported compensation
- VANESSA ROGIER (CFO): $18,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The trash punx is a 501(c)(3) organization based in san jose, ca who are dedicated to seeing a cleaner community and environment. The trash punx host waterway/park/street cleanup events, free electronic waste recycling events for the community/businesses and lead school/community group assemblies and presentations about how to recycle properly and what to do to see a cleaner environment.
What it reported doing in 2025
Local stewardship program: the local stewardship program is a catalyst for change, equipping local stewards with the tools, knowledge, and support they need to spearhead environmental transformation. The trash punx provide all the equipment needed to conduct events related to trash cleanup by local partners (high school clubs, cub scouts, etc.). Volunteers of all ages participate in this opportunity to clean the environment.
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 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 56
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 44
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 55.6%; rating input score 56
- Program expense ratio: 53.8%; rating input score 54
- Fundraising efficiency: $25.9 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 60%; rating input score 60; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.3%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.43; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 24.7%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 24.4% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 55.6% of revenue deployed · 53.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 5 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 6 filed program accomplishments · $147K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $50K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 20 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 56/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 54/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 37/100.