Chicano Federation of San Diego

What it reported doing in 2024

Infant & toddler program - contract with licensed family child care homes to provide quality childcare for infants and toddlers ages birth to 36 months. Promoting socio-emotional, cognitive and physical development, this program provides services thorugh our contracts with state-licensed day care homes. Our staff visit regularly to monitor the progress of the community children in the daycare centers. 12,000+ families were provided child centered services.barrio logan child development center - provide quality, child development services for low-income families at a preschool center that serves children ages 3-5. Barrio logan child development center is committed to fostering physical, cognitive, emotional and social development by developing and providing high-quality child-development services that offer an enriching and nurturing educational environment.home-based early head start & head start - provide parent education services for low-income families with children ages birth-5 and connect children and parents with community resources through a home-based child development and social services program. Includes weekly in-home parenting and child development education, socializations and field trips, referrals to community resources, services for children with disabilities, resources and transportation resources.child nutrition program - contract with childcare providers and reimburse them for serving nutritious meals to children in their licensed day care homes in order to improve the health and eating habits of children ages 0-13. More than 4,000,000 healthy meals for children were served through our network of 6000+ licensed daycare homes in san diego.workforce & business development program - the chicano federations women's small business development program is a childcare training program that provides women with the skills and resources to start a home based childcare business through an eight-week course that prepares them for the states licensing requirements. The goal of this program is to provide women with a unique opportunity to start their own business, while helping families in need of affordable childcare.advocacy - the chicano federation has been a long history of being at the forefront working to ensure all san diegan's have equal access to services and opportunities.community engagement - chicano federation community outreach and engagement intiatives. These are intended to get critical information and resources out to the community and increase knowledge surrounding programs such as rental assistance, voter registration, census, child tax credit and so much more.pubic health outreach - the chicano federation is the lead organization of the san deigo latino health coalition that has served both san diego county and imperial valley with covid-19 outreach efforts. The san diego latino health coalition is a collective of sandiego cbos with strong ties and is dedicated to slowing the spread of covid-19 in our latinx communitie. Specifically, we serve immigrants, undocumented immigrants, under-resourced communties, young people (age 14-24) all whom were disproportionally impacted by covid-19 and have barriers in accessing proper healthcare. Community resource center - the chicano federation community resource center opened in april 2022 and has provided wholistic resources, information, and services to the community based on needs. The team has conducted a needs assessment in the community to proactively involve those we serve in the growth of the organizaiton and its new projects, such as the resource center. We currently serve over 100 indivduals and families a month with a variety of internal and external resources that have been compiled by our resource center staff.youth soccer academy - in 2024 and 2025, chicano federation our very own youth soccer academy that hosted more than 1,000 san diego unified students ages 5-12 at the chula vista trainging center. This locatin is nationally recognized for housing

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 84%; rating input score 84
• Program expense ratio: 85.6%; rating input score 86
• Fundraising efficiency: $37.22 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 20th percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
  • Compensation committee: Missing
  • Independent consultant: Missing
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Pass
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: Limited
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 2%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.06; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.69; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 3.6%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings