Los Angeles African American Womens Public Policy Institute - LAAAWPPI
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 204782980
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3239543777
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Citizen Participation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $87,825
- Expenses
- $68,834
- Assets
- $134,361
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
People named in this filing
- Melina Abdullah (VP, Inst Curric)
- Aisha Brooks Lang (Board Member)
- Joy Atkinson (Executive Dir.)
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
To contribute and lead in the development of African-American women leaders who will impact communities through social, civic and public engagement.
What it reported doing in 2025
To increase the numbers of African-American women in leadership positions in public policy, civic and political arenas through educational programs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.4%; rating input score 78
- 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: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 21.6%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.95; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5.5% per year; rating input score 0; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.9% per year; rating input score 0; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.4% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $69K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 18 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.