Catholic Community Foundation of Los Angeles
Overview
Mission
To empower individuals and organizations to generate the most impact from their charitable giving and with their charitable assets. CCF-LA Mission Statement The Catholic Community Foundation of Los Angeles empowers charitable individuals and organizations across cultures and generations through professional philanthropy management solutions that allow clients to develop and sustain their philanthropy in support of Catholic values. CCF-LA was founded based on providing philanthropic services that are driven by the values of our faith in everything we do from issuing grants to managing investments. To be competitive in the community foundation space, we embrace the elements of teamwork to meet the expectations of our clients by delivering high levels of services, that in turn drive our reputation.
What it reported doing in 2024
Religious services and seminaries: religious orders are communities of people who live under specific vows and rules within a religious tradition, such as catholicism, eastern orthodoxy, or buddhism. Seminaries are graduate-level educational institutions for training clergy and other ministry leaders.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 69% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 88% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 383941057
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Headquarters
- Glendale, CA, USA
- Phone
- 2134261180
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 80
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 81
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.2%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 88.7%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $24.35 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 72.2%; rating input score 72; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 55.4%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 23.39; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.72; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.4%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6.4% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 69.2% of revenue deployed · 88.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $13.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $315K · 22 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $312K reported
- Consistency: 29 of 30 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 9 annual filings from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 158 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 155 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.
Leadership & pay
22 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- KATHLEEN ANDERSON (PRESIDENT AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $314,888 total reported compensation
- ARMANDO NEVAREZ (VP, CONTROLLER, & TREASURER): $215,056 total reported compensation
- TANIA NAAMAN - DIRECTOR OF (CLIENT SERVICES & CORP SECRETARY): $149,083 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: FY2024.