Volunteers Cleaning Communities
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 861326189
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-PF 2023, Form 990-T 2021
- Location
- Chatsworth, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8185197567
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Environmental Beautification and Aesthetics
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $70,637
- Expenses
- $27,033
- Assets
- $59,188
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jill Mather (President & CEO)
People named in this filing
- Jill Mather (President & CEO)
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
We are a community-based nonprofit 501(c)3 organization focused on helping make the world around us a better, cleaner, environmental friendly, litter-free place. With the help of amazing community volunteers, we organize cleaning events to clean our local streets, roads, sidewalks and freeways of litter and through the Adopt-A-Highway Program.We clean up illegal dumping sites, abandoned homeless encampments, our adopted section of the LA River (between Owensmouth and Winnetka), The Sepulveda Basin (Haskell Creek) and various train tracks.We have the Adopt 1 Street program for those individuals who cannot join groups because of time restraints or physical issues. We have school programs where we educate, lead clean ups or beautification events and give school volunteer credits.We host an annual Environmental Awareness Day event that is similar to a street faire but revolves around environmental and volunteer opportunities for community members held at the Chatsworth Train Station.We are
What it reported doing in 2025
We are a community-based nonprofit 501(c)3 organization focused on helping make the world around us a better, cleaner, environmentally friendly, litter-free place. Our geographic focus is primarily on the northwestern section of the San Fernando Valley.
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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 70
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 38.3%; rating input score 38
- 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: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 61.7%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.19; rating input score 68; 68th 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: -25.3% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 125.1% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 116.6% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 38.3% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $27K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 38/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.