Cerritos Elementary Educational Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 203717265
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2016, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Cerritos, CA, USA
- Rating
- 45
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $72,262
- Expenses
- $69,389
- Assets
- $93,846
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CATHY CHENG (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
- CAROLINE PARK (VICE PRESIDENT)
- MARISSA KU (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- CATHY CHENG (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
- CAROLINE PARK (VICE PRESIDENT)
- MARISSA KU (VICE PRESIDENT)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To serve the students and staff members of cerritos elementary and to promote schools academic co-curricular and social activities and programs.
What it reported doing in 2024
Student welfare
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 73% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
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: 16
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 16.5%; rating input score 16
- Program expense ratio: 17.2%; rating input score 17
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.35; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 85.5% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.3% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 16.5% of revenue deployed · 17.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $12K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 16/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 17/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.