South Gate Police Officers Association

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
237131029
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
South Gate, CA, USA
Phone
5624778759
Rating
63
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Professional Societies, Associations

Reported finances

Revenue
$139,029
Expenses
$153,431
Assets
$49,497

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Arturo Macias (President)
  • Cruz Castellanos (Vice President)
  • Tony Mendez (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Arturo Macias (President)
  • Eric Padilla (Treasurer)
  • Cruz Castellanos (Vice President)

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

The South Gate Police Officers Association's mission is to establish a permanent, non profit association for the benefit of all members to aid in the protection of the members by joint action, to aid in the advancement of the quality of law enforcement services provided within the City of South Gate (Hereinafterthe "City") and the science of law enforcement, and to represent regular members, collectively, in all matters relating to their employer-employee relations, including but not limited to grievances to, labor disputes, wages, rats of pay, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment asprescribed by the Meyers-Milias-Brown act, CA Govt. Code Sections 3500-3511, as amended.

What it reported doing in 2025

The Corporation is a nonprofit public benefit corporation and is not organized for the private gain of any person. The South Gate Police Officers Association's mission is to represent regular members, collectively, in all matters relating to their employer-employee relations, including but not limited to grievances to, labor disputes, wages, rates of pay, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment as prescribed by the Meyers-Milias-Brown act, CA Govt. Code Sections 3500-3511, as amended. To aid in the advancement of the quality of law enforcement services provided within the City of South Gate (Hereinafterthe "City") and the science of law enforcement.

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
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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 58
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 22
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 60.1%; rating input score 60
  • Program expense ratio: 54.4%; rating input score 54

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -10.4%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.32; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -8.8% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -3.1% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -11.8% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 60.1% of revenue deployed · 54.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $84K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • 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.

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  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 54/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.