Mosquito League
Legal name: The Mobile Science & Vector Education Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 954857061
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2019
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2017, Form 990-EZ 2019
- Location
- Santa Fe Springs, CA, US
- Phone
- (562) 944-9656
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Private Grantmaking Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $155,588
- Expenses
- $197,573
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2019. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Dan Medina (President)
People named in this filing
- Truc Dever (Director)
- Dan Medina (President)
- Elito Santarina (Director)
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 2019. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To educate the public about mosquitoes and mosquito-borne diseases through engaging, hands-on programs and resources.
What it reported doing in 2019
The Foundation operated a 33' mobile classroom/lab that visited schools throughout the greater Los Angeles County Vector Controls District's service area, covering 1,340 square miles of Los Angeles County. The aging "bug bus" was replaced in 2017 by the new "mosquito swat lab", a high-tech interactive steam experience targeting 4th-7th grade students. This program reached approximately 6,700 students per schools year and was also utilized for other youth outreach and community fair events throughout the year. This highly sought-after program was offered at no cost and was available to nearly 900 schools, many of which are title I schools.
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
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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 10
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 79.2%; rating input score 79
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -27%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -27.9% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.6% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.3% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 79.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $157K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2018 to 2019
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is recorded as not currently operating in California.