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CCOF CERTIFICATION SERVICES LLC

EIN 22-3867347 SANTA CRUZ, CA

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Revenue 2024
$21,551,826
Expenses 2024
$21,578,832

Program services were 0.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
05
NTEE code
K20
Classification
1000
Street
877 CEDAR ST STE 248

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

2 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE 248). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

CCOF CERTIFICATION SERVICES, LLC, A WHOLLY OWNED SUBSIDIARY OF CALIFORNIA CERTIFIED ORGANIC FARMERS INC., PROVIDES A WIDE ARRAY OF COST-EFFECTIVE, ORGANIC CERTIFICATION PROGRAMS. CCOF CERTIFIES FARM AND LIVESTOCK OPERATIONS, PROCESSORS, RETAILERS, PRIVATE LABELERS, AND RESTAURANTS. CCOF CERTIFICATION SERVICES IS ACCREDITED BY THE USDA NATIONAL ORGANIC PROGRAM. TO ENSURE INTERNATIONAL TRADE ACCESS FOR ITS CLIENTS, CCOF ALSO MAINTAINS ISO GUIDE 65 ACCREDITATION WITH THE USDA AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE AND IOAS FOR EU EQUIVALENCY AND CANADIAN ORGANIC REGIME ACCREDITATION AND ARE CARTV REGISTERED FOR SALES QUEBEC.

Activities or mission (Part I)

ADVANCE ORGANIC AGRICULTURE FOR A HEALTHY WORLD THROUGH ORGANIC CERTIFICATION.

  • CCOF CERTIFICATION SERVICES LLC HAS BEEN ACCREDITED TO THE NATIONAL ORGANIC PROGRAM BY THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. THE ORGANIZATION PROMOTES AND SUPPORTS ORGANIC AGRICULTURE THROUGH ITS ORGANIC CERTIFICATION PROGRAM. During 2024, the Organization certified 4,420 organic operations across 46 states and 3 countries to deliver organic products to consumers around the world. Certification staff earned the USDA National Organic Programs Data Integrity Award for the eighth year in a row for excellence in quality data management. The Organization also supported organic certification cost share reimbursement for 1,372 CCOF members totaling $1,418,044 in organic certification fees refunds and $340,381 in California stateregistration fee refunds.

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Kelly Damewood

    MGMT CMTE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $284,326
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $253,193
    Other
    $31,133
    Hours/week
    8 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    not reported + $219,721 related
    Bonus
    not reported + $33,472 related
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported + $12,980 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported + $18,153 related
    Filer's total
    not reported + $284,326 related
  • April Vasquez

    CCO

    Total calculated
    $235,496
    From this org
    $211,358
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $24,138
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $184,320
    Bonus
    $27,038
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $10,568
    Nontaxable benefits
    $13,570
    Filer's total
    $235,496
  • Sarah Reed

    HANDLER CERT

    Total calculated
    $143,099
    From this org
    $124,604
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $18,495
    Hours/week
    40
  • Renee McKeon

    CERT OPS DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $138,439
    From this org
    $115,590
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $22,849
    Hours/week
    40
  • Renee Delaney

    DIRECTOR OF FARM

    Total calculated
    $136,785
    From this org
    $116,637
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $20,148
    Hours/week
    40
  • Jacob Guth

    ASST DIR FOOD SAFE

    Total calculated
    $125,620
    From this org
    $110,342
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,278
    Hours/week
    40
  • Charles Fowler

    TREASURER/SEC

    Total calculated
    $1,250
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $1,250
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Thomas Willey

    MGMT COMMITTEE

    Total calculated
    $1,250
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $1,250
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Janning Kennedy

    MGMT COMMITTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Gina Colfer

    MGMT COMMITTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $21,551,826
    Expenses
    $21,578,832
    Contributions
    $109,223
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $19,187,077
    Expenses
    $19,506,151
    Contributions
    $25,000
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $17,681,872
    Expenses
    $17,681,872
    Contributions
    $147,137
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $17,739,253
    Expenses
    $17,739,253
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,868,964
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $15,250,411
    Expenses
    $15,182,970
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,547,408
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $15,085,611
    Expenses
    $14,400,847
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,097,240
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $13,389,419
    Expenses
    $13,497,923
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,830,870
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $12,389,367
    Expenses
    $12,994,696
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,699,491
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $11,170,826
    Expenses
    $11,197,255
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,405,160
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,068,638
    Expenses
    $9,068,638
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,302,669
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,352,112
    Expenses
    $7,380,239
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,487,195
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,461,884
    Expenses
    $6,461,884
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,918,525
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $5,977,470
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,852,227

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Related corporations and trusts on its 2024 return

  • CCOF OCAL CERTIFICATION SERVICES LLC

    C CORP · AGRICULTURAL CERTIFICATION · CA

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Not present in the most recent drop.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.