Rediscover Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 200192617
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2012
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3103933636
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Children's, Youth Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,375,174
- Expenses
- $1,473,938
- Assets
- $416,325
- Liabilities
- $150,526
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LINDA SOLOMON (PRESIDENT)
- CATHY MILLSTEIN (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JONATHAN BIJUR (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- JONATHAN BIJUR (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $104,613 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Rediscover was founded in 2002 and incorporated in 2004 to improve children's art education by using recycled materials. Rediscover has operated the rediscover center in venice, a 3,000 sf public youth makerspace. Makerspaces are shared facilities stocked with tools and materials where participants can learn, make, and share their projects and expertise. We provide makerspace services and hands-on steam classes, camps, field trips, exhibits, festival activities, and distance learning resources. These programs serve k-8 students through school programs, youth ages 5-15 through workshops and programs at our makerspace, and youth and adults in community programs such as cardboard city and free art activities at farmers markets.
What it reported doing in 2024
Staff and volunteers conducted educational programs about tinkering, art and sustainablity at the center, at rediscover classes and events throughout los angeles and online. Rediscover center diverted materials from landfills while educating businesses about creatively reusing their excess materials and incorporating them into art, tinkering and other curricular uses. Reused materials were distributed to schools, institutions, artists, and families for artistic and educational purposes.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 71% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.7%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 85.3%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.2 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 14; 14th 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: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: -7.2%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.28; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.36; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.1%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17.9% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 17% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.5% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 91.7% of revenue deployed · 85.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 11 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $105K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 14/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 47/100.