Little Voices
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 824089789
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2018
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2018, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3102924314
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Centers, Clubs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $108,193
- Expenses
- $98,296
- Assets
- $9,897
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CRYSTAL S KNIGHTON (CEO)
People named in this filing
- CRYSTAL S KNIGHTON (CEO)
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 2018. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Inspire, educate and empower fostered youth through music and character-building programs that promote youth engagement, self-esteem cultivation, community pride and development
What it reported doing in 2018
Used entetainment and media production as platformgiving voice to fostered and inner-city youth lackingresources. We provided services to 102 targeted youth
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 91% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.1%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.1; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $108K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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.
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 — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.