North Los Angeles County Regional Center
Legal name: North Los Angeles County Regional Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237351340
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Chatsworth, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8187781900
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,174,374,341
- Expenses
- $1,175,588,358
- Assets
- $302,518,481
- Liabilities
- $214,887,617
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
34 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANA QUILES (FORMER BOARD PRESIDENT- THRU 1/16/25)
- BRIAN GATUS (BOARD 1ST VICE PRESIDENT)
- JUAN HERNANDEZ (VICE PRESIDENT)
- SHARMILA BRUNJES (BOARD PRESIDENT)
- ANGELA KA-YEE PAO-JOHNSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- CARLO DEANTONIO (CLINICAL SERVICES DIRECCTOR): $478,574 total reported compensation
- MARGARET MARY SWAINE (MEDICAL SERVICES SUPERVISOR): $349,054 total reported compensation
- VINI MONTAGUE (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $329,270 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization's mission is to create a community (including families) where each individual with a developmental disability has the opportunity to live a healthy, productive and inclusive life.
What it reported doing in 2024
The center was organized in accordance with the provisions of the lanterman developmental disabilities services act (the lanterman act) of the welfare and institutions code of the state of California. In accordance with the lanterman act, the center works in partnership with people with developmental disabilities, their families, local communities, service providers and the government. The center's mission is to create a community (including families) where each individual with a developmental disability has the opportunity to live a healthy, productve and inclusive life. The center strives to lessen developmental delays in infants and young children and minimize the risk of developmental disabilities. Among the services and support the center provides or coordinates are diagnosis and assessment, individualized planning and service coordination, early intervention and prevention, community living options, supported work and vocational programs, advocacy, training and educational opportunities, and other support services for consumers and families. The center served nearly 39,000 consumers in the fiscal year ending june 30, 2025.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 98% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 92% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 97
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 98.9%; rating input score 99
- Program expense ratio: 98.8%; rating input score 99
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 95%; rating input score 95; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.1%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.26; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.71; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.2%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.5% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 98.9% of revenue deployed · 98.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 19 of 20 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.2B in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $479K · 34 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $182.9M reported
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.