Boys & Girls Club of Carson Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 330475452
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Carson, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3105220500
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Boys and Girls Clubs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,144,033
- Expenses
- $6,206,660
- Assets
- $1,248,528
- Liabilities
- $296,384
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
23 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JACQUELYN THOMAS (PRESIDENT)
- REESE JOHNSON (VICE PRESIDENT)
- KIM RICHARDS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- NINA PATEL (VICE PRESIDENT OF MARKETING)
- MARIA VALDOVINOS (VICE PRESIDENT OF OPERATIONS)
Highest reported compensation
- KIM RICHARDS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $279,965 total reported compensation
- DONALD ABBE (DIRECTOR OF FINANCE): $162,587 total reported compensation
- NINA PATEL (VICE PRESIDENT OF MARKETING): $157,065 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The boys & girls club of carson offers our young people a safe environment where they can have fun and be themselves, dedicated adult mentors who respect and listen to them, and outcome-based programs that empower youth to become lifelong learners.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization provides recreational, educational, social and community services to the boys and girls of carson at the mains street clubhouse in carson and an additional nineteen school sites throughout carson, gardena, and los angeles serving local boys and girls in k-12 in those local communnities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 65% 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.
- 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 67
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 84.1%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $18 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 23rd 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: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 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: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.2; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.24; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.7%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.4% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.6% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85% of revenue deployed · 84.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 19 of 19 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $280K · 23 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 32 of 33 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 40/100.