Democratic Socialists of America - Los Angeles
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 301442119
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- 2127278610
- Rating
- 59
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $154,215
- Expenses
- $129,831
- Assets
- $102,334
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
People named in this filing
- LESLIE CHANGE (CO-CHAIR)
- SEAN WAKASA (CO-CHAIR)
- LAURA ALLEN (TREASURER)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Dsa-la is a member-driven grassroots advocacy organization focusing on workplace organizing, policy and legislative advocacy, electoral politics, membership recruitment and retention, tenant and housing organizing, immigration justice organization, climate and pulic transportation organizing, political education for our membership and community, and solidarity campaigns with international social movements.
What it reported doing in 2025
The democratic socialists of america is the largest socialist organization in the united states, with over 100,000 members and chapters in all 50 states. The los angeles chapter has over 5,000 members. We believe that working people should run both the economy and society democratically to meet human needs, not to make profits for a few. We are a political and activist organization, not a party; through campus and community-based chapters, dsa members use a variety of tactics, from legislative to direct action, to fight for reforms that empower working people. We also have mutual-aid programs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 78% for direct work, and 22% for grants.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. 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: 36
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 33.8%; rating input score 34
- Program expense ratio: 40.1%; rating input score 40
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15.8%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.79; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 63.2% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 29% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 27.1% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 33.8% of revenue deployed · 40.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $52K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 34/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 40/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.