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Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 272352500
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2018, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Pomona, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6264193540
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,868,620
- Expenses
- $1,719,466
- Assets
- $5,225,286
- Liabilities
- $1,015,371
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DESTINY RIVERA-GOMEZ (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JESUS SANCHEZ (CO-FOUNDER/EXECUTIVE DIREC): $80,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
A community-led social action non-profit organization based in pomona whose mission is to bring together generations to access, build, and wield their collective power to achieve educational, economic, and social justice in our communities.
What it reported doing in 2024
Collaborating with our coalition partners to promote a community-led movement for change. Our collaborative efforts focus on immigration, housing, public safety, and education. Padres unidos de pomona: a parent-led social action group that organizes and advocates for students and parents in order to improve the academic performance of schools and ensure the district and the city makes decisions that put "children first." efforts include: students wellness and nutrition council, parent leader training and individual coaching, english and computer literacy classes, and the economic justice in school funding campaign. The pomona students union (psu), a youth-led social action group that seeks to engage pomona's youth in local government and community affairs, inspiring a passion for civic engagement. Our efforts include: hype/mental health campaign, youth commission campaign, youth diversion in pomona, and voces de cambio community history project.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 84% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. 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: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 76
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 49.8%; rating input score 50
- Program expense ratio: 83%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $30.29 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 69; 69th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 40.1%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.04; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.19; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.7%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 40.3% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 36% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 42.5% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 49.8% of revenue deployed · 83% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $1.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $80K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 6 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 50/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.