Girls Athletic Leadership School Los Angeles
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 473972850
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2014
- Location
- Van Nuys, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8183891184
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Charter Schools
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,175,538
- Expenses
- $5,741,230
- Assets
- $21,305,255
- Liabilities
- $18,871,069
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- VANESSA GARZA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- VANESSA GARZA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $193,334 total reported compensation
- ERICA YOUNAN (PRINCIPAL): $145,303 total reported compensation
- JOYCE LATRICE (RSP TEACHER): $133,295 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 girls athletic leadership school, a California public charter middle school, envisions a world where all young women, regardless of their background, are provided access to a personalized and holistic education that provides them with the opportunity to access the skills, knowledge, and self-determination to succeed in college and to develop as leaders in their communities and the world.
What it reported doing in 2024
California public charter school serving approximately 161 students in grades sixth through eighth.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 79% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.1%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 79.4%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: $88.97 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- 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: 8 of 8 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: 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: -10.9%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.71; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.89; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.2%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.3% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 16.3% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 32.8% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 88.1% of revenue deployed · 79.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $193K · 11 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $762K reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 8/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 36/100.