Boys and Girls Club of Santa Monica Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 951890706
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Santa Monica, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3103618500
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Boys Clubs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $9,004,658
- Expenses
- $7,708,399
- Assets
- $19,376,785
- Liabilities
- $562,355
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
38 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRYNJA SEAGREN (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
- ALISON RAITT (SR. VICE PRESIDENT OF PHILANTHROPY)
Highest reported compensation
- BRYNJA SEAGREN (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $287,792 total reported compensation
- ALISON RAITT (SR. VICE PRESIDENT OF PHILANTHROPY): $174,686 total reported compensation
- PATRICE HAWKINS (CHIEF OF STAFF): $167,387 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 inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as caring, responsible, productive citizens.
What it reported doing in 2024
The boys & girls clubs of santa monica provides a safe, supportive, fun and enriching environment for more than 2,200 kids and teens annually between the ages of 6-18 years old. We are a solution for working parents, as club members often spend more time in our programs than in the classroom. By providing essential, high quality after-school and summer programs strategically focused on healthy lifestyles, character & leadership and workforce readiness. We ensure our kids are prepared for lifelong success.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 57% for direct work, and 43% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.1%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 75.9%; rating input score 76
- Fundraising efficiency: $12.58 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14.4%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.51; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.6%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 73.1% of revenue deployed · 75.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 33 of 33 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $288K · 38 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 39 of 40 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 15 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 11 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 45/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 31/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.