Aim High Living
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 841962018
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Paramount, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3108639335
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Housing Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,247,672
- Expenses
- $1,093,096
- Assets
- $171,445
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Mayra Martinez (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Mayra Martinez (Executive Director): $63,117 total reported compensation
- Carlos De Leon (Deputy Director): $40,420 total reported compensation
- Eric Bruget (Finance Director): $35,374 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
At Aim High Living, we believe in the transformative power of second chances and the strength of community. We have provided a vital bridge for mentees transitioning from incarceration and homelessness, offering a comprehensive program that empowers residents to overcome obstacles, secure professional employment, and achieve lasting independence. Aim High Living envisions a future where all mentees are empowered to become thriving, professional members of society with access to safe housing, career-path training, and the guidance of mentors who have walked the same path. We break the cycle of homelessness and recidivism.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provide intensive case management services and housing for the homeless population, substance use disorder treatment, and re-entry services to the formerly incarcerated.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 72% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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.
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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.1%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 92.5%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 12.4%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.16; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.7%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 45.2% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 52% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 97.4% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81.1% of revenue deployed · 92.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $63K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 30/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.