Young Women's Christian Association of Greater Los Angeles
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 951652919
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- 2133652991
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Young Men's or Women's Associations
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $16,323,451
- Expenses
- $17,188,490
- Assets
- $31,289,840
- Liabilities
- $20,686,417
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
23 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LORI CARMONA (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- LORI CARMONA (CEO): $353,042 total reported compensation
- SHARON SHELTON (COO (TERM ENDED 12/2024)): $252,513 total reported compensation
- DONNA CROWDER (CAO (TERM ENDED 6/2025)): $195,882 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.
What it reported doing in 2024
Early childhood education through child development services: serving mainly low-income families with parents who are working or attending school, this free program, for qualified parents, benefits both the children and their parents by providing safe, developmentally-oriented childcare and parenting education. The overall goal for the child development programs for the ywca greater los angeles is to provide a safe, nurturing learning environment in which children can flourish while enabling their families to increase their capacity toward self-sufficiency. The child development program provides developmentally appropriate, culturally diverse programs that address all phases of a child's growth and development-social, emotional, cognitive, and physical. Families are involved in all phases of their child's educational progress through planning, implementation, and evaluation. Opportunities to build knowledge are available to all children through concrete hands-on experiences. A strong emphasis is placed on a child's learning to think critically, work cooperatively, and problem solve.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 78% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 56
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.5%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 79.5%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: $28.86 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5.3%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.82; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.66; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.2%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -11.1% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.5% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.8% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85.5% of revenue deployed · 79.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $13.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $353K · 23 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $972K reported
- Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 28/100.