Los Angeles South Hope Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 845050026
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Carson, CA, USA
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Community, Neighborhood Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $89,770
- Expenses
- $90,391
- Assets
- $38,146
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Dexter McLeod (CEO)
People named in this filing
- Dexter McLeod (CEO)
- Darlene Ross (Director)
- Lottie Cleveland (Director)
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
Engage Empower Educate and Inspire HOPE in underserved communities of South Los Angeles. Our goals are to bridge and foster relationships between local businesses government agencies and community residents in South LA or to help South LA community residents in order to help South LA communities become self-reliant sustainable and thrive.
What it reported doing in 2025
Community Membership Outreach & Economic Development
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 94% 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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
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: -0.7%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.42; rating input score 28; 28th 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: 10.3% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.