The Tuolumne County Business Council Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
900439862
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2012–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Sonora, CA, USA
Phone
2097436193
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$37,800
Expenses
$37,319
Assets
$16,237

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

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

People named in this filing

  • TODD SIMONSON (Director)
  • JUSTIN MEYERS (V.P. & Director)
  • JUSTIN BANKS (Director)

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

The Tuolumne County Business Council, Inc. (Business Council) is dedicated to developing and supporting the community wellness of Tuolumne County. The Business Council is an organization of senior business leaders (CEO's, Presidents, Regional Managers) who have joined together to address key strategic, long term issues affecting the community. The goal is to organize and use the professional leadership of local businesses to collaborate with and assist government in the successful resolution of key countywide issues. The organization was founded on February 13,2009 (APPROVED BY THE IRS ON APRIL 21, 2010, EFFECTIVE FEBRUARY 13, 2009) and currently has 86 members. The Council has focused on four key areas of action: The first is the continued generation of public revenues sufficient to maintain the community wellness of the region. Approximately 20% of the Business Council time is devoted to this activity.The second major area of focus is county land use. The Business Council has formed a

What it reported doing in 2025

Promote proper countywide land use by identifying key areas of potential economic development activity to benefit the community.

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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 89
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 31
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 88.4%; rating input score 88
  • Program expense ratio: 89.5%; rating input score 90

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 1.3%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.44; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 80.4%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -2.6% per year; rating input score 0; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 88.4% of revenue deployed · 89.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $33K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2012 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.