Legends Animated
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 462827420
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3104006366
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Visual Arts Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $135,687
- Expenses
- $51,575
- Assets
- $120,544
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LESLIE EZEH (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- LESLIE EZEH (PRESIDENT)
- ACACIA TORRES RODARTE (TREASURER)
- DIANA TERAN (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
To provide opportunities for art students as well as independent artists and animators to create animate that would promote awareness and appreciation for this art form. Additionally, this Corporation may engage in any activites that are reasonably related to or in furtherance of its stated chartitable purposes,
What it reported doing in 2024
Provides fiscal sponsorships to projects that are alignedwith its mission.It also collaborates on co-productionsof animated projects with other 501c3 non profit organizations
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 69% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 55
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 77
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 34.4%; rating input score 34
- Program expense ratio: 90.5%; rating input score 91
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 62%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.34; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 45.4% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 86.3% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 136.5% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 34.4% of revenue deployed · 90.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $47K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 34/100.