Ventura County Civic Alliance
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 813713600
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2018, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Ventura, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8056653834
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Coalitions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $95,366
- Expenses
- $65,476
- Assets
- $107,377
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DAVID MARON (CEO)
People named in this filing
- DAVID MARON (CEO)
- MARV KING (CFO)
- ABIEL ACOSTA (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 Ventura County Civic Alliance is a unique regional collaborative representing a balanced mix of Economic, Environmental, and Social Equity perspectives. Our mission is to work together to promote a healthy and sustainable future for Ventura County. The Alliance holds a set of core beliefs that guides its mission: regional stewardship, open dialogue, collaboration, evenhandedness, unbiased research and community building and decision making by consensus. We bring together residents and civic organizations to cooperatively explore options and find integrated solutions to the complex economic, environmental and social challenges of our region.To accomplish these purposes, the corporation may receive, hold and disburse gifts, bequests, devises and other funds and may own and maintain or lease suitable real estate and buildings, and any personal property which is deemed necessary for these purposes; and to enter into, make and perform and carry out contracts of any kind for any lawful p
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, the Ventura County Civic Alliance produced the biennial State of the Region Report (SOTR) which examines key regional indicators within 10 domains. These include Agriculture, Education, Economy, Land Use & Housing, Public Safety, Social Services and Transportation. This report is distributed to thousands of community, business, education and political leaders within Ventura County to inform their decision-making.The Ventura County Civic Alliance raised funds, researched and published the 2025 State of the Region report. Board members volunteered hundreds of hours and additional resources were contracted to write and edit the report. The report was initially released at a large community event with over 230 people then distributed via board member presentations to city councils, public service organizations and many others.
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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68.7%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 31.3%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.64; rating input score 61; 61st 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: -0.8% per year; rating input score 0; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -11.5% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -9.1% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 68.7% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $65K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.