Bayfront Youth & Family Services
Legal name: Bayfront Youth and Family Services Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 330891900
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Long Beach, CA, US
- Phone
- 5625954525
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Residential Mental Health Treatment
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,881,335
- Expenses
- $4,181,416
- Assets
- $2,813,899
- Liabilities
- $2,149,313
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Maryam Ribadu (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Maryam Ribadu (CEO): $139,583 total reported compensation
- Cynthia Sarmiento (Chief Operating Officer): $99,862 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Bayfront Youth & Family Services is a quality provider of behavioral and mental health treatment services for children, adolescents, and their caregivers. Our mission is to provide a comprehensive support system that promotes safe and nurturing environments. Support the family, support the child. Fostering community connection for all.
What it reported doing in 2024
Bayfront Youth & Family Services is a private not-for-profit organization with two Medi-Cal certified Outpatient clinics located in Los Angeles County, one in Long Beach (Service Area 8) and the other in Paramount (Service Area 6). Bayfronts corporate offices are also located in Long Beach. The Agency has over 16 years of experience delivering high quality mental health and related services to children, youth, and their families throughout Los Angeles County. Our current Los Angeles Department of Mental Health contracts include Wraparound Approach Services, Therapeutic Behavioral Services (TBS), Intensive Field Capable Services (IFCCS), Prevention & Early Intervention (PEI), Peer Support Services and a Functional Family Therapy (FFT) a pilot program. The Agency also provides school-linked mental health services in Compton and Paramount Unified School Districts and accepts community and County referred individuals in need of traditional mental health services.The Agency provides 24-hour support to families throughout Los Angeles County. Providing a strength-based, team driven process, which gives families the opportunity to identify their needs and build on their unique, individualized values to gain safety, stability, and permanence in their communities. The Agency serves 300 youth and families annually and maintains an overall satisfaction rate on all programs above the 80% threshold standard under strict quality control standards and monitoring.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 99% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.6%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 90.5%; rating input score 91
- 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; 63rd 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: 14.3%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.67; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.76; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.7%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5.2% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.3% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 77.6% of revenue deployed · 90.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $140K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 49/100.