San Gabriel Valley Power Up Beacon

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
392685655
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Monterey Park, CA, USA
Phone
8778295500
Rating
68
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Public, Society Benefit N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$16,422
Expenses
$3,799
Assets
$12,623

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Margarat Leung (President)
  • Robert Ogawa-Monroe (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Margarat Leung (President)
  • Robert Ogawa-Monroe (Vice President)
  • Edlyn Takahashi (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

Our mission is to develop a new Barnes Park Aquatic Center - a forward-looking, inclusive, and accessible space designed to meet the evolving recreational, educational, and social needs of the Monterey Park community. To empower residents to take collective action that strengthens community well-being through the redvelopment of public spaces.

What it reported doing in 2025

Key Organizational Achievements:-Organized a major regional swimming advocacy event with more than 70 swimmers and 60+ volunteers with around 300 participants.-Advanced recognition of Barnes Park Pool's historic role as a 1984 Olympic training site.-Built partnerships with schools, youth organizations, aquatics leaders, and civic stakeholders.-Raised broad community awareness through media outreach, petitions, and public engagement campaigns.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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

SUPPORTED - 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 filed totals do not add up.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 64
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 74
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 42.6%; rating input score 43
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 76.9%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.32; rating input score 76; 76th 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: 42.6% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $7K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 2 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 43/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.