Conservation Corps of Long Beach Gateway Cities Charter School
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 463430340
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2016
- Forms available
- Form 990 2016
- Location
- Long Beach, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5622161790
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Charter Schools
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,032,889
- Expenses
- $952,345
- Assets
- $161,170
- Liabilities
- $322,972
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2016. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Dan Knapp (CEO)
People named in this filing
- Larry Forester (Trustee)
- Julie Ruiz-Raber (Chair)
- Bea Bea Jimenez (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. Selected filing: tax year 2016. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To raise self-esteem, develop basic work skills, work ethics, and education, and promote teamwork for Long Beach area at-risk youth through a combination of work conservation and education programs.
What it reported doing in 2016
Operation of a public charter school in conjunction with a certified conservation corps (Conservation Corps of Long Beach or CCLB). Through its partnerships with CCLB, the organization serves at-risk youth and/or high school dropouts from ages 18 to 25 years old within the Long Beach area.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 95% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.4%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 89.4%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.8%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.17; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 2; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 18.6% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -7.3% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 82.4% of revenue deployed · 89.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $851K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2014 to 2016
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
- Review — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization could not be resolved against the register, so the check is unfinished.