The Shaw Community Transformation Corporation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
010804429
IRS 990 coverage
2024–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2019
Location
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Phone
3104668366
Rating
69
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$455,174
Expenses
$275,222
Assets
$275,422
Liabilities
$34,386

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Stephen Jn-Marie (CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • Stephen Jn-Marie (CEO): $46,003 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Our mission is to advance Justice through creative expressions by Elevating, Organizing, Strategizing, and Mobilizing Community members in an effort to increase their power by helping them to build wealth and to increase their capacity for Civic and Community engagement in positive ways.

What it reported doing in 2024

Creating Justice LA (CJLA) is a DBA of The Shaw Community Transformation Corporation. Our mission is to advance Justice through creative expressions by Elevating, Organizing, Strategizing, and Mobilizing Community members in an effort to increase their power by helping them to build wealth and to increase their capacity for Civic and Community engagement in positive ways. We are seeking to build and incubator for Holistic Growth, Development and Transformation. We seek to create alternatives to Capitalism that would generate income using more democratic options, such as co-ops and other creative models. Through our Mom & Pops initiative we seek to bring Mom & Pops businesses back into communities from which they have been displaced through gentrification. We believe that street vending and other Mobile models are one of the only ways in which small business will be able to survive and thrive from now and on into the future. Through our Creating Justice LA-Peace and healing center we serve as a resource hub and space for community connection and relationship building and healing. We also serve as a cooling and cool water station during extremely hot weather.Ran a peace and healing center in Skid Row Los Angeles, opened on Monday WednesdayThursday and Friday. Served 30-50 people per day, offered free coffee, meditation room, cooling center for homeless individuals seeking relief from extreme weather conditions, whether its extreme heat, cold or rainy conditions. We logged well over 1400 hours in services.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 67% 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.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 59
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 58
  • Sustainability: 59
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 53.2%; rating input score 53
  • Program expense ratio: 88%; rating input score 88
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 39.5%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 16.7%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 58.7% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 39.2% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 53.2% of revenue deployed · 88% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 0 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $242K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $46K · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 24 of 25 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 53/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 7 not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.