Jesse Miranda Center for Hispanic Leadership

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
264110982
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
Location
La Mirada, CA, USA
Phone
7145150314
Rating
88
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Community, Neighborhood Development
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$116,391
Expenses
$102,962
Assets
$39,686
Liabilities
$1,332

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Jesse Miranda III (President/CEO)

People named in this filing

  • Jesse Miranda III (President/CEO)
  • Drake Levasheff (Secretary)
  • Jin Sung (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

The Jesse Miranda Center for Hispanic Leadership (The Miranda Center) is a pioneering 501(c)(3) organization that is fueled by a profound commitment to building greater capacity in emerging and existing Latino leaders for the purpose of transforming the church, community, and campus through education, leadership, and research. Through community partnerships and direct services, we inspire transformation within those in the community who have for so long been marginalized and subject to a myriad of barriers that prevent them from achieving their full potential.

What it reported doing in 2025

The Miranda Center has developed a strategy through which we aim to help pastors and community leaders to connect, educate, and work together to advocate for and uplift the Latino community. Our comprehensive continuum of programs includes workshops supporting the advancement of Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs), advocacy to promote the Hispanic faith community and growing of the Brown Church, education Economic wisdom, entrepreneurship, home ownership for families of Color, Hispanic leadership development, and efforts to establish social justice and enrich Hispanic communities. Throughout our programs we provide a nurturing, inclusive environment in which participants can receive the tools and resources they need to tackle impending community issues.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 74% for direct work, and 26% for grants.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Assets have declined or grown slowly and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 84
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 41
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 80%; rating input score 80
  • Program expense ratio: 90.5%; rating input score 90

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 11.5%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.39; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 35.1%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -9.9% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 80% of revenue deployed · 90.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $93K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.