Home At Last Community Development Corporation
Legal name: Home at Last Community Development Corp
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 470902546
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Culver City, CA, USA
- Phone
- (323) 750-7177
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Improvement, Capacity Building N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $19,695,427
- Expenses
- $18,757,658
- Assets
- $8,853,387
- Liabilities
- $7,903,853
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JENNIFER YOUNG (PRESIDENT)
- VAUGHN WILLIAMS (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JENNIFER YOUNG (PRESIDENT): $173,601 total reported compensation
- MICHAEL YOUNG (FOUNDER): $160,163 total reported compensation
- MIRNA BELTRAN (TREASURER): $117,751 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To increase the safety and emotional stability of homeless individuals and families through temporary and permanent housing. We promote life sustainability through social services, job readiness, education, and advocacy.
Home At Last Community Development Corporation provides temporary and permanent housing along with supportive services to homeless individuals and families in Los Angeles. Operating multiple shelter locations including Avalon, Matrix, Infinity, The Lotus, Evolve, and LIV, the organization serves transitional age youth and adults through case management, job readiness, education, and advocacy. During COVID-19, it partnered with the Department of Health Services to run a 120-bed quarantine isolation site for asymptomatic homeless individuals, supporting hospital overflow. The organization is committed to creating a world where everyone has a home.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 94% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 85%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $537.31 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- 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: 71.4%; rating input score 71; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.8%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.47; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.89; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.9%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 25.9% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 25.9% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 27.3% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 81% of revenue deployed · 85% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 7 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $15.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $174K · 8 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $289K reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.