Alta Community Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
924018661
IRS 990 coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2024
Location
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Phone
8185684050
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Job Training

Reported finances

Revenue
$347,448
Expenses
$287,577
Assets
$59,427
Liabilities
$36,167

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • BILL RESNICK (PRESIDENT)
  • ASHER LANDAU FROM 042025 (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • ASHER LANDAU FROM 042025 (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $61,477 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Our mission is to provide culinary training and education for young people, as well as address food insecurity through affordable, high-quality meals. We operate three integrated programs focused on culinary training, education, and community service. The culinary training program provides on-the-job instruction from experienced chefs to young people entering the workforce, equipping them with real-world culinary experience that supports career readiness and long-term financial stability. The culinary education program offers free cooking classes in classrooms, afterschool programs, and community settings to build food literacy, strengthen food security, and empower youth as future food system leaders. Through the community meals program, students work alongside the organization's chef to prepare weekly meals for nonpro

What it reported doing in 2025

We operate three integrated programs. The culinary training programprovides on-the-job instruction from experienced chefs for youngpeople entering the workforce to support career readiness andlong-term financial stability. The culinary education program offersfree cooking classes to build food literacy, strengthen food security, and empower youth as future food system leaders. Through the communitymeals program, students work alongside the organization's chef toprepare weekly meals for nonprofits throughout los angeles.

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 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

SUPPORTED - 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 74
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 74
  • Sustainability: 38
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 69.5%; rating input score 70
  • Program expense ratio: 84%; rating input score 84
  • Fundraising efficiency: $32.15 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • 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: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • 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: 17.2%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.21; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.61; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 21.4%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 35.2% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 89.5% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 76.9% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 69.5% of revenue deployed · 84% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $242K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $61K · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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.

  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.