Laton Arts Central Ca
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 331672564
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Selma, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5593901889
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Performing Arts Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $75,762
- Expenses
- $75,762
- Assets
- $11,289
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ruth Monarrez (CEO)
People named in this filing
- Ruth Monarrez (CEO)
- Karina Martinez (Chief Financial Officer)
- Leon Bui (COO)
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
Laton Arts Central CA is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing accessible arts education in rural communities. The organization offers folklórico dance instruction, cultural programming, and performance opportunities for youth. Through these programs, students develop cultural awareness, confidence, discipline, and leadership skills. Laton Arts Central CA also creates workforce and volunteer opportunities for local youth, including student instructors, while fostering community engagement and cultural pride.
What it reported doing in 2025
Program 1: Folklórico Classes Provided weekly folklórico dance classes and cultural arts instruction to youth in rural communities including Lemoore, and Laton and surrounding areas. Students learned traditional Mexican dance styles, performance techniques, and cultural history. The program served approximately 60-80 students per community and is still growing.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 82% 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
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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94.4%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 94.4%; rating input score 94
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.15; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 94.4% of revenue deployed · 94.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $72K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.