The Children's Dental Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 954533883
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Inglewood, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3104193000
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Residential Care & Adult Day Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,406,451
- Expenses
- $1,251,648
- Assets
- $1,962,588
- Liabilities
- $1,597,345
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DENNIS YOUNG (PRESIDENT & CEO)
People named in this filing
- QUINT CARROLL (BOARD MEMBER)
- DENNIS YOUNG (PRESIDENT & CEO)
- FRED JOYAL (BOARD MEMBER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The children's dental center is dedicated to eliminating dental disease and promoting overall health by providing a dental home for under-served children and their caregivers through exceptional and comprehensive prevention, education, and treatment services.the community dental center of greater los angeles ("tcdc"), a non-profit organization founded in 1995, continues to make major contributions in the fight against oral disease in under-served children and their caregivers. Tcdc is widely recognized as a model for the delivery of comprehensive preventive, education, and treatment programs and services for economically disadvantaged, dentally under-served children and their caregivers.
What it reported doing in 2024
Prevention - provided oral health screenings and the placement of protective sealants and flourides to approximately 7,300 patients.treatment - provided examinations, x-rays, diagnosis, treatment plans, cleanings, restorations (fillings), implants, as well as orthodontic care (braces), endontic care (root canals), and oral surgery (extractions) to approximately 7,000 patients.to be eligible for treatment services, a child must be 18 years or younger, in school (if of school age), must qualify as dentally underserved or dentally uninsured, living in a household with one of more working parents/guardians, and a family income no greater than 2.5 times the federal poverty guidelines. A person or family may also be enrolled in denti-cal, healthy families, etc. Acceptable proof of income (most recent tax return or paycheck stub) is requested at the time of enrollment and then again every six or 12 months.the center includes the smile store, with 11 fully equipped, child friendly operatories, each with newly installed dental chairs and television monitors. In addition, intra-oral wireless cameras and the latest dental materials assure that the highest quality care possible is being provided to each patient. To serve the nearly 900 children, and growing, in need each month, our staff of dentists, hygienists supervisors, and dental hygiene students from ucla, usc, west los angeles college, and cerritos college. As a dental learning facility, over 1000 oral health professionals dental student have passed through the center's doors.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 79% 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: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.3%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 86.8%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.35 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 10; 10th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 11%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.57; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.81; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 77.3% of revenue deployed · 86.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2009 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 10/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.