City Fabrick

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
451130362
IRS 990 coverage
2014–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2013, Form 990-N 2011
Location
Long Beach, CA, USA
Phone
5629012128
Rating
62
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Community, Neighborhood Development

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,913,251
Expenses
$2,139,791
Assets
$896,254
Liabilities
$483,851

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • BRIAN ULASZEWSKI (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • BRIAN ULASZEWSKI (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $127,500 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Mission is to promote, advance and support sustainable and replicable urban planning and development practices, programs and projects, through research, education and technical support to agencies, institutions, organizations and the public in Long Beach, California and nearby areas.

What it reported doing in 2024

AFFORDABLE HOUSINGArchways Santa Ana, completed in 2024, offers 85 affordable homes in Santa Ana, including units for extremely low-income households and permanent supportive housing. Three buildings surround interconnected paseos, courtyards, and a mini park, creating spaces that encourage connection and community. City Fabrick partnered with Community Development Partners on community engagement, schematic-level landscape, building, and graphic design, helping shape a development thats both functional and welcoming. With amenities like a community room, play areas, garden beds, and easy access to public transit, Archways Santa Ana demonstrates how thoughtful design supports residents well-being and long-term stability.Construction has wrapped up on the first phase of Community Develop? ment Partners adaptive reuse of a former Motel 6 property into over forty permanent supportive homes for formerly unsheltered residents in Costa Mesa. Soon after opening, california Governor Gavin Newsom toured the new community to showcase the success of the Homekey program, which is providing financial and regulatory support for similar hotel to permanent supportive homes conversions. The Governor shared his admiration to local officials, CDP, and partner Mercy House for the success of this development to transform a formerly blighting property into a community asset. The expanded design will continue repositioning the former auto-oriented motel into an integrated, supportive community for those most in need of affordable, dignified homes. The new outdoor spaces will include an outdoor living room and sun deck offering these residents unique experiences to enjoy and build social connections with their neighbors. Mesa Vista Phase 2 is scheduled to start construction at the beginning of 2025.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 92% 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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 76
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Accountability: 5
  • Sustainability: 20
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 88.8%; rating input score 89
  • Program expense ratio: 79.4%; rating input score 79
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 8th 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • 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: -11.8%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.42; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.54; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 6%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 25.3% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 20.8% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 21.9% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 88.8% of revenue deployed · 79.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 0 of 7 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 9 filed program accomplishments · $1.7M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $128K · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 23 of 25 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 50/100.