Peace 4 Kids
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 330920234
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Compton, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3235692034
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Children's, Youth Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,700,068
- Expenses
- $1,138,054
- Assets
- $2,709,170
- Liabilities
- $56,953
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Zaid Gayle (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Zaid Gayle (Executive Director): $140,475 total reported compensation
- Richard Loring (Director (Non-Voting)): $47,746 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 mission of Peace4Kids is to create a safe community where youth in foster care thrive and form lasting connections.
What it reported doing in 2024
Peace4Kids served 200 unduplicated children and young adults from foster care in South Los Angeles. Our age-appropriate programs and services adapted to the real-time needs and dynamics caused by the pandemic. This drove Peace4Kids to increase the frequency of our individual connections with transition-age youth and caregivers, helping them overcome food insecurity and housing instability, navigate public benefits and systems, and access health care and other social services. During the last year, Peace4Kids collaborated with the LA County Departments of Youth Development and Probation to address the unique and unmet mental health needs of youth from foster care. We also advanced our youth-led, curriculum-based training and professional development for educators, health professionals, social workers, and caregivers on clinical approaches that mitigate the effects of adverse childhood experiences for youth from foster care.
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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 70
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 57.4%; rating input score 57
- Program expense ratio: 82.2%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: $25.56 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- 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: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 33.1%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.38; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 16.5%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.5% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.4% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 57.4% of revenue deployed · 82.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 12 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $936K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $140K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 42 of 42 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 57/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.