Social Justice Partners Los Angeles

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
510563566
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Phone
3232389508
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Education N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,993,897
Expenses
$1,879,463
Assets
$5,655,941
Liabilities
$45,110

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CHRISTINE MARGIOTTA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • CHRISTINE MARGIOTTA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $167,720 total reported compensation
  • YOLANDA ENOCH (DIRECTOR - OPS/FIN): $132,900 total reported compensation
  • ALLISON SIMON (HEALING JUSTICE & WELLBEING SENIOR LEAD): $110,573 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

We support the creation of systems of care for the wellbeing and liberation for those working towards more justice in los angeles. We advance racial and social justice by providing grants, training, peer learning, and healing spaces that address root causes of systemic injustice while centering community wisdom and lived experience.

What it reported doing in 2024

Racial equity in homelessness initiative: our racial equity in homelessness initiative supports leaders with lived experience to rise to executive positions, facilitating equity-focused training for organizational leaders, and offering comprehensive wellbeing supports to workers in the homeless response sector. Our fellowships have seen remarkable career advancement, with participants moving into director-level positions at organizations like united way of greater la, the people concern, safe place for youth, and la county departments. All five participants from the first hilton foundation fellowship cohort successfully transitioned to full-time public sector roles. Our five-week community care and the workplace program, offered four times in 2024 with 85 participants, addresses disconnection, burnout, and unprocessed grief among workers. The program has reached over 200 participants since inception. The wellbeing series, offered 10 times in 2024 with 310 attendees (207 working directly in homeless services), provides monthly workshops introducing diverse healing modalities. These sessions encourage personal rest, renewal, and connection, equipping workers with practical tools to sustain them in their crucial work.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 89% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 70% for direct work, and 30% for grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 71
  • Transparency & Controls: 67
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 75
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 57.8%; rating input score 58
  • Program expense ratio: 89.3%; rating input score 89
  • Fundraising efficiency: $69.28 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 93.1%; rating input score 93; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • 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: 37.2%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.01; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 21.9%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 22.9% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 22.2% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 27.7% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 57.8% of revenue deployed · 89.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.7M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $168K · 12 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 29 of 30 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2011 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 7 filed related-organization links
  • 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 58/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.