MLK Community Medical Group
Legal name: Martin Luther King Jr Community Medical Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 812455970
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, US
- Phone
- (424) 338-8000
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hospitals and Related Primary Medical Care Facilities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $24,516,623
- Expenses
- $40,830,034
- Assets
- $50,770,097
- Liabilities
- $100,544,739
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- ELAINE BATCHLOR MD (BOARD MEMBER): $1,291,417 total reported compensation
- JOHN FISHER MD (CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER): $696,550 total reported compensation
- KURT STAUDER PRESIDENT (OF MEDICAL GROUP FDN (THRU 06/25)): $555,751 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide the highest quality healthcare to the South Los Angeles community.
What it reported doing in 2024
Mlk community medical foundation (mlkcmf) advanced access to essential healthcare services for underserved and vulnerable populations through multiple programmatic and operational initiatives. Mlkcmf contracted with major medical managed care plans to secure reimbursement for street medicine services, enabling the program to deliver primary and preventive care to unhoused individuals living on the streets and in state-renovated motel settings that are not classified as temporary supportive housing. By expanding care delivery into these settings, the program improves continuity of care and increases the likelihood of patient stabilization and selfsufficiency. During the year, mlkcmf doubled the size of its street medicine program to meet growing community need.mlkcmf also strengthened operational efficiency while maintaining community service levels by consolidating three clinic sites into two locations without reducing patient visit volume. This restructuring reduced operating costs and improved care coordination through expanded use of telehealth, asynchronous care modalities, and improved integration with specialty services.to further enhance access to diagnostic services, mlkcmf opened a new outpatient radiology service offering basic xray, ultrasound, and bone density studies, improving timely diagnosis and treatment for the patient population served.mlkcmf continued to expand care management services, including chronic disease management and enhanced care management (ecm). In 2025, the organization launched diabetes group education combined with individualized physician visits, serving both englishspeaking and spanishspeaking patient cohorts. The ecm program, part of California's medicaid initiative, grew to more than 300 active participants and continued to serve individuals with the most complex medical and social needs.in maternal health, mlkcmf expanded its prenatal care program at the east compton, California site from three days to five days per week. This expansion improved access to prenatal services, supported improved maternal and infant health outcomes, and enabled patients to receive care within their community rather than traveling outside the service area.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 93% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 65
- Accountability: 89
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 90.2%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 90%; rating input score 90; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Limited
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -66.5%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.24; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.98; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.7%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 21.4% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 17.3% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 32% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 8 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 90.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 10 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $36.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.3M · 16 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $25.7M reported
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.