California Latino Leadership Institute
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 471243514
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Pasadena, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3236607234
- Rating
- 42
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cultural, Ethnic Awareness
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $47,600
- Expenses
- $60,918
- Assets
- $22,252
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARIA HERNANDEZ (PRESIDENT)
- LISA D BACA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- ILIANA RAMOS (CHAIRPERSON)
- MARIA HERNANDEZ (PRESIDENT)
- ERICA ALFARO (SECRETARY)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of the California latino leadership institute (clli) is to serve as a leadership development organization bringing together the public, private and nonprofit sectors using a multi-program platform to develop dynamic 21st century leaders. The clli envisions a more equitable world in which all California leaders have the resources and tools needed to empower themselves and others to achieve positive change.
What it reported doing in 2025
This reporting period the institute created the following leadership development and training programs: southeast fellows program: the southeast fellows program is a one of a kind rigorous monday through saturday paid summer internship targeting high school residents ages 16-18 who are juniors and seniors in the 2025-2026 academic school year. The goal of the program is to create an environment for collective problem solving, soft skills development, conflict negotiation, team building, workforce career mentoring and civic engagement tools.central valley women's empowerment summit program: the central valley women's empowerment summit program provides knowledge about resources and networking opportunities for a cross section of women participants by age, culture and interest including college students, small business owners, nonprofit leaders, community leaders and elected officials to succeed and improve their lives.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -28%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.37; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 63.4%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -11.9% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.8% per year; rating input score 0; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 30.7% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.