Downtown Long Beach Alliance
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 950945145
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Long Beach, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5624364259
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,297,711
- Expenses
- $6,297,711
- Assets
- $3,212,200
- Liabilities
- $3,212,200
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
25 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- AUSTIN METOYER (PRESIDENT & CEO)
- JAMES AHUMADA (SENIOR VP & DEPUTY CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- AUSTIN METOYER (PRESIDENT & CEO): $228,044 total reported compensation
- JAMES AHUMADA (SENIOR VP & DEPUTY CEO): $180,073 total reported compensation
- JEREMY ANCALADE (VP OF ADMINISTRATION): $158,520 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The downtown long beach alliance is a non-profit organization operating on behalf of the tenants and commercial and residential property owners of the business improvement district. (see schedule o)it is dedicated to the management, marketing, security, maintenance, advocacy, economic and community development of the assessment districts in cooperation with the city of long beach and the private sector.
What it reported doing in 2024
Downtown long beach alliance is a nonprofit corporation organized to attract, stimulate, and enhance business activity in the downtown long beach area. To meet these goals, the organization conducts marketing and public relations campaigns, holds exempt purpose events which promote downtown long beach, and provides a range of services including maintenance functions and a guide program for downtown businesses. The organization also addresses specific merchant issues that better the business atmosphere in the downtown long beach area.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 98% 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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 81
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 83%; rating input score 83; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: No; rating input score 0
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 0%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.51; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.7%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 19 of 19 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $228K · 25 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $231K reported
- Consistency: 12 of 14 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 33/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Related-party transparency scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.