Leaders of Tomorrow After School Program

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
825012563
IRS 990 coverage
2019–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Sacramento, CA, USA
Phone
9165242365
Rating
68
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Primary, Elementary Schools

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,548,263
Expenses
$1,513,460
Assets
$312,612
Liabilities
$205,470

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • PENDREL VENTRESS (President)

Highest reported compensation

  • PENDREL VENTRESS (President): $116,633 total reported compensation
  • JOHNATHON HENDERSON (Secretary): $83,846 total reported compensation
  • DAVID JOHNSON (Treasurer): $71,000 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Leaders of Tomorrow After School Program is dedicated to the needs of low-income, Title 1, elementary school students by implementing an in-depth common core aligned curriculum divided into two engaging quarterly unitsLife Skills and STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics). These units are project-based with an emphasis on increasing health knowledge, social emotional learning, science education, equity, art appreciation, and college and career readiness. The students will be able to strengthen their reading comprehension, writing, mathematical modeling, and critical thinking by participating in project-based learning activities with the objective of improving research skills, communication, collaboration, and mathematically-themed progress monitoring.

What it reported doing in 2025

Leaders of Tomorrow After School Program is dedicated to the needs of low-income, Title 1, elementary school students by implementing an in-depth common core aligned curriculum. The students will be able to strengthen their reading comprehension, writing, mathematical modeling, and critical thinking by participating in project-based learning activities with the objective of improving research skills, communication, collaboration, and mathematically-themed progress monitoring.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 88
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 0
  • Sustainability: 24
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 97.8%; rating input score 98
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 0 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 2.2%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.21; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.66; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 17.9%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 27.9% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 28.7% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 15.8% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 97.8% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 0 of 3 board members independent · 0 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.5M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $117K · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 8 of 8 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.