The Malibu Community Labor Exchange
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 954428885
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Malibu, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3103174717
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $188,831
- Expenses
- $150,853
- Assets
- $298,963
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Oscar Mondragon (Executive Director of Operations)
- Cynthia Colburn (Vice President)
- Christopher Collins (President)
People named in this filing
- Oscar Mondragon (Executive Director of Operations)
- Kay Gabbard (Director)
- Cynthia Colburn (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
Job Placement. Malibu Community Labor Exchanges MCLE hours are Monday through Saturday mornings from 0700AM to 1300PM. In addition to providing a hiring location for poor workers and homeless in need of work, MCLE provides use of a phone and message service for workers, English classes and job opportunities for both men and women, primarily labor and domestic housework. The attendance at MCLE continues to be over 75 people per day with approximately 10 to 12 new registrants each week.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 82% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.5%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 20.1%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.98; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 49.5%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -13.7% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.5% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $151K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.