The Latino Coalition for Community Leadership
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 870702644
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2011
- Location
- Bakerfield, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8055862505
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Nonprofit Management
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $20,833,425
- Expenses
- $21,394,872
- Assets
- $15,135,832
- Liabilities
- $3,595,449
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Richard Paul Morales (President& CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Richard Paul Morales (President& CEO): $144,388 total reported compensation
- Crystal Watson (Deputy ED): $141,333 total reported compensation
- Cory Miskell (Deputy Ed): $133,316 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The LCCL seeks to advance resource equity and the well-being of community through its mission to find, fund, form, and feature nonprofits in marginalized communities meeting the needs of individuals and families. As a community-facing intermediary, the LCCL provides subgrants and capacity-building to community and faith-based organizations focused on reentry, victim services, violence interruption, and community health and safety.
What it reported doing in 2024
7 violence interruption focused organizations in California and Colorado are provided with sub grants and capacity-building through three projects funded through the City of Los Angeles, State, or Federal funding. These projects employ community intervention workers, violence interrupters and street outreach workers skilled in gang intervention, de-escalation efforts, and rumor control. Direct services are focused on supporting youth and young adults on their individual journeys and providing wrap-around services to families and siblings through case management, pro-social engagement, supportive services, and community and restorative justice events. These organizations collaborate with pubic safety and public health entities to strengthen community response to violence. The LCCL provides training, capacity-building, and technical assistance, and fosters ecosystem development through regular in-person site visits, trainings, and quarterly all-stakeholder meetings.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 86% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 97
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 98.3%; rating input score 98
- Program expense ratio: 95.7%; rating input score 96
- Fundraising efficiency: $578.14 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 21st 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: -2.7%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.71; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.24; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17.1% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 19.2% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 27.8% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 98.3% of revenue deployed · 95.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 9 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $20.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $144K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 29 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 54/100.