Tomales Town Hall

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
942789946
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2012
Location
Tomales, CA, USA
Phone
7078782006
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$44,420
Expenses
$50,205
Assets
$742,695
Liabilities
$4,107

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JOHN TORNES (President)
  • MERCY FAVROW (Vice President)

Highest reported compensation

  • DENISE BROWN (Trustee): $3,832 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 mission of the Tomales Town Hall is to support projects that will benefit the community culturally and educationally, to encourage participation by this community, and to preserve and respect the building and its history.

What it reported doing in 2025

Community Benefit EventsThe Tomales Town Hall provides opportunity for involvement and enrichment by hosting community benefit events such as free yoga classes, weekly free food distribution, monthly Open Mic sessions, local, monthly osteopathy clinics, community lecture & film series, dinner dance fundraisers for the Hall, and a seasonal holiday party for the region we serve.In 2025, the Hall hosted 6 ESL classes, 8 Osteopathic Free clinics, 1 Health Fair, 1 CPR/AED class, 2 potlucks, 9 concerts, 11 Open Mic nights, a MALT succession planning meeting, 1 meeting with County Supervisor Dennis Rodoni, 2 OMA meetings, 1 Legal Observer training,1 Lecture via THRC, hosted a twice per week teen center for a total of 30 days, 12 TVCSD meetings, 12 TTH Board meetings, 10 Parks Meetings, 4 Design Review Meetings, 168 yoga classes, 56 food pantry days, and 4 fundraisers.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 71% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 79
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 78
  • Sustainability: 44
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 85.2%; rating input score 85
  • Program expense ratio: 75.2%; rating input score 75
  • Fundraising efficiency: $13.25 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • 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: -13%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 14.79; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 7.6%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 20.1% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 9.7% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -0% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 85.2% of revenue deployed · 75.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 6 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $38K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $4K · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 58/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.