Los Alamitos Youth Center

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
952142369
IRS 990 coverage
2013–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Los Alamitos, CA, USA
Phone
5624934043
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,064,784
Expenses
$904,781
Assets
$3,138,579
Liabilities
$1,142,365

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

Leadership & pay

19 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Lina Lumme (CEO)
  • Eric Frankenberg (President)

Highest reported compensation

  • Lina Lumme (CEO): $141,476 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

The Los Alamitos Youth Center (the Youth Center) fulfills a mission to transform childrens lives one family at a time through collaborative social, educational, and recreational programs. Total 3,608 students served in 2025.

What it reported doing in 2025

Recreational, Arts, and Educational Programs The Youth Center offers a variety of programs designed to inspire creativity, build skills, and support youth development. Our after-school music program is conducted in partnership with the Los Alamitos Unified School District and provides string and band instruction to public, home, and independent school students in grades K through 5. After one year of instruction, students in grades 1 through 5 may participate in the elementary string ensemble or jazz band. More than 250 students participate annually, and no child is turned away due to an inability to pay. Saturday classes are also offered to expand access and enrichment opportunities. The Leadership Academy serves 30 students each year and focuses on building essential life skills, including goal setting, cooking, banking, car insurance and maintenance, career readiness, and healthy living. Our Girls in STEM program is designed for elementary school students, with a focus on empowering girls in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Through hands-on workshops, mentorship, and leadership activities, participants develop confidence, teamwork, and problem-solving skills. This program helps break down barriers, inspire future innovators, and promote a more diverse and inclusive STEM workforce.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 89% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 57
  • Transparency & Controls: 94
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 58
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 58.3%; rating input score 58
  • Program expense ratio: 66.8%; rating input score 67
  • Fundraising efficiency: $7.21 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings

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: 100%; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 15%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.47; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.36; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 15.6%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 20.3% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 58.3% of revenue deployed · 66.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $604K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $141K · 19 people listed
  • Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2025
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 58/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 25/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.