Urban Compass
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 202438382
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3233837588
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $14
- Expenses
- $1,300
- Assets
- $12,726
- Liabilities
- $87
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DON MORGAN (President)
People named in this filing
- MICHELLE ALFONSO (Treasurer)
- CLAUDIA DIETRICH-JOE (Director)
- PATRICK MCNICHOLAS (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Urban Compass provides a safe, welcoming, and innovative environment that challenges our youth to envision and navigate a course for a rewarding future characterized by achievement, independent thought, and social responsibility through education, mentoring, and play. We guide youth toward a hopeful future.
What it reported doing in 2024
Urban compass provides services in two los angeles communities - watts and pico union. While these communities are different in many ways, both communities are plagued by gang activity, both experience widespread academic challenges, and both are extremely underserved by social service organizations. These areas are starved for social services, particularly in the area of academic support. The office of juvenile justice and delinquency prevention reports that children are most likely to engage in risky behaviors, such as violent crime, during the after-school hours of 3-7 pm. The needs of these communities are widely acknowledged, yet the resources to address these needs remain scarce. Through early intervention, urban compass works to keep elementary school students out of gangs by providing academic support and enrichment in a safe and supervised space during vulnerable after school hours - putting our students and their families on a path to college and a positive future. By engaging children during the after school hours, urban compass provides a positive diversion during the hours when children are most likely to engage in risky activities. This time is used to positively impact academic progress, which moves children further away from a life of gang activity and toward a positive trajectory of hope. Urban compass provides intensive, long-term support for children that substantially influences their school experience and their life trajectory. The urban compass model begins with k-5th graders from 112th street school & st thomas, who receive daily after school tutoring and enrichment services. Upon reaching middle school, urban compass students are invited to attend twice-monthly saturday sessions with urban compass college & career pathways and ultimately, they are invited to return as high school tutors and mentors. The comprehensive service model includes the following types of services: academic support, family engagement and support, enrichment activities, social/emotional development and special events/field trips.
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
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9,185.7%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 9.79; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -80.4% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -21.2% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.3% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 1/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.