After-School All-Stars
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 954441208
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, US
- Phone
- (323) 938-3232
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $24,162,217
- Expenses
- $22,341,557
- Assets
- $23,618,431
- Liabilities
- $3,584,028
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
35 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BEN PAUL (CEO)
- ANDREA BAZAN (PRESIDENT)
- TARYN DAVIS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- DANIELA GRIGIONI (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- BEN PAUL (CEO): $515,060 total reported compensation
- ANDREA BAZAN (PRESIDENT): $409,788 total reported compensation
- KATHY LALLY-BEARES (VP OF FIELD OPERATIONS): $211,538 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide free, comprehensive enrichment programs that keep children safe and help them succeed in school and in life.
What it reported doing in 2024
After-school all-stars partners with schools on innovative enrichment placed ourselves across the nation in under-resourced communities to keep students safe and help them succeed in school and life. After-school all-stars provides programs and transformative opportunities that help students develop the skills, knowledge, and habits needed to succeed in life, school, and their future career. During the year, after-school all-stars served approximately 140,000 students through free, comprehensive after-school and summer programs focused on academic support, enrichment, health and fitness, leadership, mentorship, service learning, and career exploration.
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 99% 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.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 95
- Accountability: 98
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.5%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 85.4%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $37.41 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 96.4%; rating input score 96; 30th 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: 7.5%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.06; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.5%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.5% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.3% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 79.5% of revenue deployed · 85.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 27 of 28 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $19.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $515K · 35 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $957K reported
- Consistency: 39 of 39 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 9 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 27/100.