Nature Friends Los Angeles Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 334455403
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Historical Societies & Historic Preservation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $97,682
- Expenses
- $331
- Assets
- $97,351
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JAMES ANGUS (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JAMES ANGUS (PRESIDENT)
- BRUCE R ANDERSON (TREASURER)
- R DANIEL FOSTER (SECRETARY)
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
1. Historic site rehabilitation. Restoration of the historic Nature Friends Los Angeles lodge destroyed by wildfire in January 2025. 2. Educational Internships and Youth Programs. Student internship programs in conservation historic preservation and nonprofit management. 3. Public. Cultural and Environmental Program. Community events such as nature hikes cultural history talks trail restoration days art and music programs and seasonal festivals. 4. General Administration and Planning. Strategic planning compliance grant writing financial management board administration and volunteer coordination
What it reported doing in 2025
3. Public Cultural and Environmental Programs. Discussed strategies to develop these programs once we have raised enough funds to commence rebuilding the lodge.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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: 83
- Growth: NotEnoughData
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: 99.7%; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 294.11; rating input score 100; 100th 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: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.