Catalyst San Gabriel Valley Incorporated
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 811360329
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2019
- Location
- Alhambra, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6263798165
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $289,702
- Expenses
- $312,962
- Assets
- $273,402
- Liabilities
- $2,822
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JESSE CHANG (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- JESSE CHANG (CEO): $63,162 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 believe that helping activate as many community stakeholders of good will and good faith together is a key to real and lasting change in our communities. We specialize in helping activate local congregations to become active stakeholders in the cities they worship in. In the complex and complicated web of cities and communities in the san gabriel valley, the need for bridging and collaboration is all the more urgent.
What it reported doing in 2024
We seek to help design, install, maintain, and teach from gardens spaces in school campuses. Urban youth don't get much exposure to the wild or where their food comes from, so we "bring the wildedible foods to them by designing and installing gardens in their schools. Our environmental projects at various schools in the community serve to teach students about the importance of preserving the environment through the lens of nature and team-building activities
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 16
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 61.5%; rating input score 62
- Program expense ratio: 56.8%; rating input score 57
- Fundraising efficiency: $83.58 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 83; 83rd 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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: Limited
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.87; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 20.2%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.8% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.9% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 61.5% of revenue deployed · 56.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $178K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $63K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.