Center for Reflective Communities
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 263981412
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2021
- Forms available
- Form 990 2012, Form 990-EZ 2021
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3103940801
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Adult, Continuing Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $83,671
- Expenses
- $122,990
- Assets
- $62,158
- Liabilities
- $65,145
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MATTHEW ALBERT (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- MATTHEW ALBERT (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- REGINA PALLY (CHAIR)
- JOHN GRIENENBERGER (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 2021. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Center for reflective communities strengthens bonds between children and those who care for them, engendering healthy development for our children, families and communities. Through our growing network of community partnerships, crc provides comprehensive, advanced trainings in our mindful and reflective approach to culturally competent mental health and early childhood professionals, educators, residential care staff and home visitors, who then bring our innovative programs to families and children most in need.
What it reported doing in 2021
Mindful parenting groups (mpg) provide a development-driven, relationship-focused approach to the cultivation of resilient, healthy and secure parent-child bonds. In an intimate and interactive group setting, mpgs bring together infants, toddlers or preschoolers (ages three months to three+ years), along with their parents, in order to promote childhood attachment security. Most notably, mpgs allow parents to slow down, reflect, and practice mindful observation-about their own emotional experiences as well as those of their young children.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 96% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 14
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 73.9%; rating input score 74
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -47%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.51; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.05; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 71%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.2% per year; rating input score 0; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4.6% per year; rating input score 0; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 73.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $91K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2011 to 2021
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.