College Access Plan

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
208371402
IRS 990 coverage
2016–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Pasadena, CA, USA
Phone
6263988500
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$3,452,781
Expenses
$1,709,174
Assets
$2,912,527
Liabilities
$46,066

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

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MONIQUE HYMAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • MONIQUE HYMAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $145,686 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're a student-centered support system that serves any student who opts into our services. Cap fosters meaningful interactions to assist students and their families through any and all college readiness and success steps, supporting them as they navigate the journey from middle school through college graduation. We strive to ensure that students consider all their options because we believe that college should be accessible to everyone regardless of academic achievement, income level, or any other qualifying factors. Our purpose and goal is to create a program that best suits unique students' needs by providing programs that are open-to-all. Cap serves an average of 2,700 students and their families annually.in january of 2025, the eaton fire tore through our community. College access plan responded by directly supporting fire impacted families with immediate emergency assistance, developing programmatic resources to rapidly address urgent needs and financial aid appeals support,

What it reported doing in 2024

High school program: college access plan (cap) provided college support through twice weekly drop-in sessions and individualized appointments at six pasadena unified school district (pusd) high schools and four hacienda la puente unified school district (hlpusd) high schools. In these sessions, students develop college lists, complete college and financial aid applications, apply for scholarships, and more. Cap also provided college 101 and college essay writing courses focused on navigating the holistic admissions process.the purpose of cap's on-campus offerings is to provide fundamental college information to high school students and to follow that information up with programs that are individualized to meet each student's unique college needs. These offerings are run in collaboration with on-site after school programs and with the administrators at school sites. They are available for drop-ins, providing no barriers to access.2024-2025 year was the second year of college champions, a youth leadership program for first generation college-going students who act as trained college advocates in their school communities and receive an early start in the college application process.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 83% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

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

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 56
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 74
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 40%; rating input score 40
  • Program expense ratio: 80.2%; rating input score 80
  • Fundraising efficiency: $23.56 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 50.5%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.7; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 8.5%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 15% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 21.7% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 19.3% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 40% of revenue deployed · 80.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 12 of 13 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.4M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $146K · 13 people listed
  • Consistency: 33 of 34 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 40/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 35/100.