Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Los Angeles
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 810851473
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- 2136283673
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $9,033,660
- Expenses
- $8,052,476
- Assets
- $45,908,580
- Liabilities
- $2,592,327
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
45 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PATRICK MAHONEY (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- PATRICK MAHONEY (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $341,344 total reported compensation
- KIMBERLY WASHINGTON (VP OF RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT): $168,239 total reported compensation
- VERONICA JIMENEZ (VP OF OPERATIONS): $167,639 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of the boys & girls clubs of metro los angeles is to create a safe space that empowers all club members to learn, explore, achieve, and dream (l.e.a.d.).
What it reported doing in 2025
Boys & girls clubs of metro los angeles (bgcmla) is a California not-for-profit corporation chartered by the boys & girls clubs of america, inc. Bgcmla was created in 2015 to consolidate existing boys & girls clubs and to expand services through the creation of new clubs and through partnerships with city and county government. The collective of clubs includes: bell gardens boys & girls club, challengers boys & girls club (challengers), jordan high school boys & girls club, watts/willowbrook boys & girls club (watts/willowbrook), and boys & girls club of venice (venice). Bgcmla's mission is focused on promoting the health, life skills, and educational, vocational, and character development of los angeles youth ages 6-18. Each of the youth program sites (clubs) facilitates youth programs designed to meet the physical, emotional, cultural, and social needs of the participants. Because these core areas are integrated, it is not practical to separate expenses into program categories. Bgcmla's principal funding sources are contributions, grants, government contracts, special events and rentals.bgcmla provides a trauma-informed, social emotional learning approach to its afterschool programming in low-income communities. Bgcmla serves 95%+ african american and latinx students, 98% of whom qualify for free or reduced lunch. Bgcmla delivers high quality programs and significant access to resources for members and their families. Bgmla provides a safe place for youth to learn, explore, achieve, and dream. Bgmla accomplishes this through targeted programs in arts, music, stem, mentoring, athletics and healthy lifestyles.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 74% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
STRONG - 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: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 89
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.8%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 79.6%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $14.29 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.9%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.7; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.4%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.5% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72.8% of revenue deployed · 79.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 40 of 40 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $6.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $341K · 45 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 38 of 38 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 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.
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 48/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 32/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 58/100.