Latino Community Fund of Washington State

Overview

Mission

Improve the well-being of the Latinos in Washington State

What it reported doing in 2024

Civic engagement and advocacy: Alianza is a student-led program that serves Latino youth by providing opportunities to succeed educationally and develop leadership potential through service learning. Latino equity network Len coordinates engagement of grassroots community members to engage in advocating better policies and systems improvement for their families. Len organizes and activates the voices from within the Latino community for improved outcomes on multiple issues that include education, immigration, environmental justice, etc. Len builds a grassroots movement of informed and engaged community members to advance racial and economic equitable policy and systems improvements for Latinos in Washington. Both Alianza and Len work to increase civic participation of Latinos.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 86% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
205987399
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Headquarters
Seattle, WA, USA
Phone
2063672448
Rating
83
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Official website

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 90
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 64
  • Sustainability: 39
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 96.2%; rating input score 96
  • Program expense ratio: 90.3%; rating input score 90
  • Fundraising efficiency: $21.48 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
    • Audit committee oversight: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -6.5%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.14; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.3%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 20.9% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 20.6% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 23.4% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 96.2% of revenue deployed · 90.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 10 of 12 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $5.1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $126K · 14 people listed
  • Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $290K reported
  • Consistency: 32 of 34 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 12 annual filings from 2011 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 12 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 15 filed related-organization links
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Leadership & pay

14 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • Lilliane Ballesteros (Executive Dir.): $126,193 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: FY2024.