Kiwanis Club of Long Beach Foundation Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
330363069
IRS 990 coverage
2019–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Long Beach, CA, USA
Phone
5625066286
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Community Service Clubs

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$56,973
Expenses
$50,873
Assets
$727,366
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Sue Baker (President)

People named in this filing

  • Sue Baker (President)
  • Brian Fuller (Director)
  • Don Budai (VPCommunication)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Our mission is simple, to support and serve the Long Beach community, one child and one community at a time. The Kiwanis Club of Long Beach Foundation, Inc., founded in 1958, has always maintained a strong and respected leadership within the city. Members are small business owners, representatives of corporations, non-profit leaders, educators, individuals, retirees, moms, dads and anyone with a spirit of altruism and a desire to help make the community a better place by improving the lives of children and youth.Through hands-on service projects and financial grants, the Kiwanis Club of Long Beach Foundation, Inc. strives to enrich the lives of our community children. Through many partnerships with organizations who also focus on service projects, we support families in need, the physically challenged, school youth programs and more. Kiwanis provides mentor programs and career enrichment to high school Kiwanis Key Clubs and the California State University Long Beach Circle K Club colle

What it reported doing in 2024

OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES EXPENSES - These expenses are not a part of any particular Program Services Accomplishments but must be reported here to agree with the amount reported on Form 990, Part IX, Column B, Line 25: Awards and Recognitions $ 419 Bank Service Charges (Program-Services Related) 4 Special Projects Expenses 4,181 VA Support of Their Ongoing Social Events for Veterans 661 ------ Total Additional Program Services Expenses $5,265 =======EXPENSES $5,265 GRANTS $0 REVENUES $0

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 62% for direct work, 38% for grants, and 0% for affiliated organizations.

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 the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 84
  • Transparency & Controls: 74
  • Accountability: 68
  • Sustainability: 67
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 99.8%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 85.8%; rating input score 86
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 54.6%; rating input score 55; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 84.6%; rating input score 85; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 10.7%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 14.3; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -7.3% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 99.8% of revenue deployed · 85.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 11 of 13 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 14 filed program accomplishments · $44K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
  • Consistency: 17 of 18 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes grants
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 55/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.