Tzicatl Community Development Corporation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 043669252
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3238333800
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community, Neighborhood Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,687,529
- Expenses
- $5,248,675
- Assets
- $6,639,935
- Liabilities
- $6,274,902
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
People named in this filing
- MARCOS AGUILAR (EXEC DIR/BOARD CHAIR)
- MINNIE FERGUSON (BOARD TREASURER)
- SALOMON ZAVALA ESQ (BOARD SECRETARY)
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 mission of Tzicatl Community Development Corporation is to advance the rights of Indigenous Peoples and the regeneration of healthy relations with spaces, places and lands of origin in both the urban inner-city and migrant transnational contexts through the advocacy of positive social ecosystems which promote and protect their cultural, social and ceremonial practices.
What it reported doing in 2024
Tzicatl is a global leader in reframing, redefining and regenerating Indigenous education, community organizing and movement building. Our growing positive impact reaches beyond our learning community including local regional partners, tribal nations, and Indigenous communities. Tzicatl's organizers and board members reflect a deep personal commitment to the practice of teaching, demonstrate profound area expertise and strong ties to parents and families as an expression of community-defined social justice. Our organization's leadership has led the growing resurgence of Indigenous Peoples in educational ecosystems across the country, hemisphere and indeed across the world. Leadership from the bottom up in our context reflects a multigenerational lived history of Indigenous Peoples led social struggle and an intergenerational commitment to our future
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 66.2%; rating input score 66
- Program expense ratio: 71.7%; rating input score 72
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- 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: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.7%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.27; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.95; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 18.1% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 27.9% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 24% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 66.2% of revenue deployed · 71.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $121K reported
- Consistency: 21 of 22 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.