Kentwood Home Guardians

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 951427020
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2012–2024
Forms available: Form 990-EZ 2024
Location: Westchester, CA, USA
Phone: 3106705111
Rating: 47
Verdict: MIXED
Rating confidence: Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue: $136,904
Expenses: $94,136
Assets: $291,342
Liabilities: $59,897

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

Carolyn Epstein (President)

People named in this filing

Carolyn Epstein (President)
Julie Zeller (Director)
Gregg McNeilly (Director)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Crime prevention & archetectural review

What it reported doing in 2024

Liason with City of Los Angeles, members, and otherinterested parties. Also archetectural review

Operating model

Revenue model: Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 14
Transparency & Controls: 82
Sustainability: 76
Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 12.1%; rating input score 12
Program expense ratio: 17.6%; rating input score 18

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

Operating margin: 31.2%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.09; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: -14.1% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 12.1% of revenue deployed · 17.6% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $17K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
Schedules: 1 filed schedules
Filing history: 10 filing years from 2012 to 2024
Contacts: How to reach this organization
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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 12/100.
High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 18/100.
High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.
High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is not authorized to operate as a charity in California.