California Language Teachers Assoc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
330681748
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Redwood City, CA, USA
Phone
5592172982
Rating
86
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Student Services, Organizations of Students

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$367,750
Expenses
$357,777
Assets
$344,209
Liabilities
$4,322

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ALICE MIANO (PRESIDENT)
  • RONIT RON-YERUSHALMI (PRESIDENT EL)

Highest reported compensation

  • ELIZABETH MATCHETT (EXECUTIVE DI): $20,000 total reported compensation
  • EVELYN BEJARANO (TREASURER): $6,000 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

We encourage world language professionals to participate in our endeavors by creating and maintaining a dialog within affiliates to vigorously share the clta mission and vision. (see sched o for complete mission statement)

What it reported doing in 2024

4) summer seminar clta partners with the California world language project to offer a residential summer seminar at ucsb for language educators. We choose a timely theme for our members and bring in the best minds in the state and country to be guest speakers and strand facilitators related to the seminar theme. One of the strands offered is a student strand, intended to attract talented undergraduates to the field of world language education. 5) summer study and travel abroad for members clta solicits donations to support opportunities for our members to travel abroad with the intention of improving their language and target culture proficiency. We offer scholarships to defray travel costs, and partner with organizations to offer free tuition to educational programs designed to improve pedagogical practices. 6) leadership development clta offers a leadership development program (calli) as part of its annual conference. Identified teachers are supported to attend the regular conference and participate in a 2-day workshop designed to grow their leadership capacity for their sites, districts, counties, and for other organizations to which they may belong, such as clta. Several current board members have been identified as a result of their participation in these activities. 7) clta voices clta publishes a free bi-monthly newsbrief that advertises our programs as well as activities from other organizations related to world languages and cultures.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 75% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 80% for direct work, 18% for grants, and 2% for affiliated organizations.

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: 86
  • Transparency & Controls: 94
  • Accountability: 79
  • Sustainability: 42
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 86.5%; rating input score 86
  • Program expense ratio: 88.7%; rating input score 89
  • Fundraising efficiency: $44.74 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 80th 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: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 2.7%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.96; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 7.3%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 36.8% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 86.5% of revenue deployed · 88.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $317K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $20K · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 6 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 31/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 44/100.