Pacoima Beautiful
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 954770745
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Pacoima, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8188992454
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Environmental Beautification and Aesthetics
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,606,474
- Expenses
- $4,739,427
- Assets
- $6,509,386
- Liabilities
- $88,996
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- VERONICA PADILLA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- VERONICA PADILLA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $149,038 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Pacoima beautiful (pb) is a grassroots environmental justice organization that provides education, impacts local policy and supports local arts and culture in order to promote a healthy and sustainable san fernando valley.
What it reported doing in 2024
Pacoima beautiful (pb) is a grassroots environmental justice organization that provides education, impacts local policy and supports local arts and culture in order to promote a healthy and sustainable san fernando valley. Pb is committed to building by nurturing people power so that our community can influence policy and decision-making to create a more sustainable community. As the only environmental justice organization in the san fernando valley, pb is well positioned to address major issues that impact our community, such as housing, covid recovery, air quality issues, land use issues, the digital divide and provide wellness support. Pb administered the following programs in fiscal year 2024/2025: youth environmentalist, community organizing, and community planning and policy. All the grants that we manage fell into one or all of these programs. Each of these programs accomplish pb's goal of providing the residents of the northeast san fernando valley with environmental education, the tools to become advocates for sustainable changes in the environment and the community, and the leadership skills to participate in dialogues with leaders to improve the environment. Pb served over 10,000 people per year through our programs, events and outreach.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
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 some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.2%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 66%; rating input score 66
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 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: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -31.4%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.37; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.1%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 20.1% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.5% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 30% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.2% of revenue deployed · 66% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $149K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 27 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.