Latin-american Cinemateca of Los Angeles
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 954784470
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3232250347
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Film, Video
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,496
- Expenses
- $24,312
- Assets
- $14,122
- Liabilities
- $2,000
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- E MICHAEL DIAZ (President)
People named in this filing
- E MICHAEL DIAZ (President)
- MARIA LOPEZ-FREEMAN (CHAIRPERSON)
- LUPE SOLORIO (Secretary)
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
The organization is strongly committed to the cultivation of cultural expression and exchange amoung filmmakers, educators, students and community members of diverse backgrounds with year-round programming of classic, contemporary and experimental latinx and latin-american cinema, and a student film festival of works created by inner-city middle high school students.
What it reported doing in 2024
Sponsored, promoted and produced 2 special event viewings of latin-american and USA latinx films. Attendance at the 2 events exceeded 150 individuals. All programs were announced on the latin american cinemateca of los angeles website, and email announcements were sent to all who are on the organizations's mailing list. The organization's purpose is to promote social welfare by increasing an understanding of latin-american and USA latinx culture as expressed in the moving image from its earliest development to the present.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 71.9%; rating input score 72
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -874%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.58; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -12.7% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -7.5% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.8% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 71.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $17K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.