Mothers-in-action Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 954688627
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2021
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3232900456
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $422,398
- Expenses
- $418,960
- Assets
- $618,681
- Liabilities
- $250,000
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TRACY MITCHELL (BOARD PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- TRACY MITCHELL (BOARD PRESIDENT & CEO): $81,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Mothers in action's mission is to improve the quality of life for the children and families in our community. Our primary service areas are community service, community forums/townhall meetings, mentoring/tutoring, at risk youth safety programs/projects, community feeds and health fairs. We also do referral services, food and toy giveaways usually during holdays, internships and life skills training.
What it reported doing in 2021
Mothers in action works to improve the quality of life of underserved children and families in the community. We distributed groceries, hot meals and food gift cards to food insecure families, we hosted vaccination clinics and distributed valuable resource information on the covid 19 pandemic, we distributed much needed hygiene and covid 19 prevention supplies to seniors and underserved families, we conducted weekly mentoring sessions, we provided food and toys during the holidays and distributed back to school supplies and information on health, education, counseling and etc to thousands of school aged children.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 64% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 73
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.2%; rating input score 99
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 71.4%; rating input score 71; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.8%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.48; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.4; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 19.3%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -39.4% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -29.6% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.6% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 99.2% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 7 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $419K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $81K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2020 to 2021
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 33/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is not authorized to operate as a charity in California.