Adelante Comunidad Conejo Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 834279835
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Thousand Oaks, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8058072254
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Civil Rights
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $664,617
- Expenses
- $652,939
- Assets
- $28,849
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lynda Karl (President)
- Carole Shelton (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Lynda Karl (President)
- Marcela Mendoza (Treasurer)
- Sandra Martinez (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
It is our mission to bring Conejo Valley Latino voices into important community conversations regarding our schools, city and recreation opportunities. We organize and advocate for those not yet ready to speak on their own behalf and seek out opportunities for Latino families to reach their goals by including them in multi-generational, multicultural activities. Our focus is on City, School District, Park District, and business community. Support programs include leadership development, food distribution to low-income families, food recovery, and building awareness of community resources. Adelante Comunidad Conejo creates opportunities for people to work together across differences in income, culture, language, age, ability, and background. While rooted in the Latino community, Adelante has become a visible example of inclusion - where people from different backgrounds build relationships, contribute to shared goals, and participate more fully in community life.
What it reported doing in 2025
Monthly Open Air Community Free Marketplace held at Conejo Academy on Los Feliz Drive and Conejo School Road. Distribution includes purchased, donated, and recovered foods and various donated household goods. We purchase corn tortillas, cheese, milk, and eggs to supplement donations and rescued food items from affiliated nonprofits and community members. Households receive hundreds of dollars of free food at each event which allows limited funds to be spent on other essentials such as rent, transportation, and medical care.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 95% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 89
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97.8%; rating input score 98
- Program expense ratio: 99.6%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 97.6%; rating input score 98; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.8%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.04; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.3% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.6% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -16.9% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 97.8% of revenue deployed · 99.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 6 filed program accomplishments · $650K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 41 of 43 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.