Troy Cyber Defense Booster Club
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 823502246
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Fullerton, CA, USA
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $84,899
- Expenses
- $80,193
- Assets
- $46,839
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Karen Noronha (President)
- Hema Reddy (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Pei Yang (Treasurer)
- Karen Noronha (President)
- Nav Narsina (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide financial support to the cyber defense program of troy high school through its sponsorship of fundraising activities and the solicitation of contributions of individuals businesses, and civic group by donations, endowments, and bequests. The objective include, but are not limited to: - promoting troy high school cyber defense - encouraging good sportsmanship and developing team unity. - developing and enhancing a sense of pride and tradition. - providing financial support for all levels of troy high school cyber defense. - providing the resources to supply the program with the necessary training, travel, equipment and other support as deemed appropriate by the instructors, students, and school.
What it reported doing in 2024
1 summer camp: troy cyber defense program hosted annual summer camp in july 2025 for 233 students from 6th grade to 12th grade. The camp includes: beginner camp and advanced camp based on students' age and experience. The topic covers from an introduction to safe computing practices to preparing students for cyberpatriot competitions. 2 cyberpatriot competition: 45 high school teams with 248 troy students - 13 all-service teams and 32 open teams. Two teams qualified for nationals in 2025 and one team got 2nd place.
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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.4%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 74.6%; rating input score 75
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.5%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.58; rating input score 33; 33rd 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: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.4% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4.2% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 70.4% of revenue deployed · 74.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $60K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.