Associated Students UCLA
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 951777979
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- (310) 825-7055
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $64,530,026
- Expenses
- $64,464,794
- Assets
- $64,979,362
- Liabilities
- $52,654,163
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
28 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- POURIA ABBASSI (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- POURIA ABBASSI (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $426,570 total reported compensation
- MICHELLE MOYER (BUSINESS AFFAIRS DIRECTOR): $314,917 total reported compensation
- DONNA BAKER (FINANCE DIRECTOR): $290,023 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 serve the UCLA community through student-centered retail, dining, and program services, while providing meaningful employment and leadership opportunities for students.
What it reported doing in 2024
Asucla supports student governments and student programming activities in the student union and throughout the campus. Asucla provides support to student government, student groups and student programs through state-of-the-art office and community spaces, and by providing adequate financial resources and personnel to ensure an active and vibrant campus life. Asucla provides and supports a diversified array of programming by prioritizing student-run, student-initiated, student-centered programming that reflects the needs of the campus community in order to enhance educational, cultural and developmental social interaction. Asucla provides a welcoming environment that contains space for the optimal functioning of general academic support, student governments, student organizations and social gatherings.
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.
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: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 73
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 76.8%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: $283.65 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.1%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.01; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.81; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.2%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 76.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $49.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $427K · 28 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $495K reported
- Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 24 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 7 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 35/100.