Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA)
Mission
Heart of Los Angeles’s mission is to help young people overcome barriers through exceptional, integrated programs and personalized guidance in a trusted, nurturing environment. Heart of Los Angeles was founded in 1989 and now serves nearly over 3,000 youth, ages 6-24, and their families, through transformational expanded learning programming that includes academics, athletics, music, visual arts, and family services. All of Heart of L.A.’s core programming is designed to overcome barriers and nurture educational, career, artistic, and social success. For 35 years, Heart of L.A. has been serving the Westlake community in Central Los Angeles, and in 2022, began to deliver programming across South Central Los Angeles. In Central L.A., programs take place at Heart of L.A.’s Arts and Recreation Center (ARC), an award-winning building which opened in 2021 that integrates outdoor-indoor space and includes special features such as a recording lab, music pavilion, private rehearsal spaces, and an innovative maker arts lab. The ARC is supporting Heart of L.A.’s ability to grow and innovate its programs and serves as community hub from which its most robust integration of services are accessed and through which further expansion into other Los Angeles communities is incubated. Ninety-three percent (93%) of Heart of L.A.'s families have incomes that fall under the federal poverty limit and 96% are BIPOC.
Vision
Throughout its more than three decades of serving this community, HOLA’s overarching goal has remained the same: to become the most impactful community center it can be, ensuring that every student growing up in and around this neighborhood has equitable opportunities to succeed. HOLA has a vision for our city as a place in which every young person has the opportunity to realize their full potential. Unfortunately, far too many children have inequitable access to quality education due to challenges in the school or home–often both. HOLA’s program model is founded on safe environments, nurtured by a no-wrong-door approach, amplified by world-renowned partners, and strengthened by resilient and engaged students. HOLA knows that connecting youth to post-secondary success also means career access, greater opportunities, and uplifting the entire community.
Goals
- 1.Help more young people and their families overcome barriers to success and provide equitable access to quality opportunities through continued partnerships so they can realize their full potential.
- 2.Advocate for the equitable and effective distribution of state and federal dollars to benefit our young people.
- 3.Invest in the service integration that makes HOLA programming exceptional and connect HOLA families to the resources they need to help their children succeed.
Los Angeles CA | EIN: 95-4397418
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501(c)(3) organization
Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA)
Mission
Heart of Los Angeles’s mission is to help young people overcome barriers through exceptional, integrated programs and personalized guidance in a trusted, nurturing environment. Heart of Los Angeles was founded in 1989 and now serves nearly over 3,000 youth, ages 6-24, and their families, through transformational expanded learning programming that includes academics, athletics, music, visual arts, and family services. All of Heart of L.A.’s core programming is designed to overcome barriers and nurture educational, career, artistic, and social success. For 35 years, Heart of L.A. has been serving the Westlake community in Central Los Angeles, and in 2022, began to deliver programming across South Central Los Angeles. In Central L.A., programs take place at Heart of L.A.’s Arts and Recreation Center (ARC), an award-winning building which opened in 2021 that integrates outdoor-indoor space and includes special features such as a recording lab, music pavilion, private rehearsal spaces, and an innovative maker arts lab. The ARC is supporting Heart of L.A.’s ability to grow and innovate its programs and serves as community hub from which its most robust integration of services are accessed and through which further expansion into other Los Angeles communities is incubated. Ninety-three percent (93%) of Heart of L.A.'s families have incomes that fall under the federal poverty limit and 96% are BIPOC.
Vision
Throughout its more than three decades of serving this community, HOLA’s overarching goal has remained the same: to become the most impactful community center it can be, ensuring that every student growing up in and around this neighborhood has equitable opportunities to succeed. HOLA has a vision for our city as a place in which every young person has the opportunity to realize their full potential. Unfortunately, far too many children have inequitable access to quality education due to challenges in the school or home–often both. HOLA’s program model is founded on safe environments, nurtured by a no-wrong-door approach, amplified by world-renowned partners, and strengthened by resilient and engaged students. HOLA knows that connecting youth to post-secondary success also means career access, greater opportunities, and uplifting the entire community.
Goals
- 1.Help more young people and their families overcome barriers to success and provide equitable access to quality opportunities through continued partnerships so they can realize their full potential.
- 2.Advocate for the equitable and effective distribution of state and federal dollars to benefit our young people.
- 3.Invest in the service integration that makes HOLA programming exceptional and connect HOLA families to the resources they need to help their children succeed.
Los Angeles CA | EIN: 95-4397418
Profile managed by nonprofit | Is this your nonprofit?
501(c)(3) organization
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Program Expense Ratio:80.62% of total expenses
SCORE100%
Average percentage of expenses on programs and services over the past three years. A ratio greater than 70.00% receives full credit.
ExpensesFY2022
- Administrative: 3.8%
- Fundraising: 11.6%
- Program: 84.6%
ExpensesFY2023
- Administrative: 10.6%
- Fundraising: 11.8%
- Program: 77.6%
ExpensesFY2024
- Administrative: 10.1%
- Fundraising: 9.5%
- Program: 80.4%
- Administrative
- Fundraising
- Program
Source: Public data from IRS Form 990
Liabilities to Assets Ratio:5.36% of total assets
SCORE100%
Total liabilities divided by total assets, indicating long-term sustainability. A ratio under 50.00% receives full credit
Source: Public data from IRS Form 990. Fiscal Year 2024.
Working Capital:3.30 years of reserves
SCORE100%
Duration where assets could cover expenses with no new funding. Reserves of more than 0.50 years receive full credit
Source: Public data from IRS Form 990. Fiscal Years 2024, 2023, 2022.
Fundraising Efficiency:$0.10 to raise a dollar
SCORE100%
Cost to raise $1 in charitable contributions. A cost of less than $0.20 per dollar raised receives full credit.
Source: Public data from IRS Form 990. Fiscal Years 2024, 2023, 2022.
| Score | Metric |
|---|---|
| 100% | Program Expense Ratio:80.62% of total expenses Average percentage of expenses on programs and services over the past three years. A ratio greater than 70.00% receives full credit. ExpensesFY2022
ExpensesFY2023
ExpensesFY2024
Source: Public data from IRS Form 990 |
| 100% | Liabilities to Assets Ratio:5.36% of total assets Total liabilities divided by total assets, indicating long-term sustainability. A ratio under 50.00% receives full credit Source: Public data from IRS Form 990. Fiscal Year 2024. |
| 100% | Working Capital:3.30 years of reserves Duration where assets could cover expenses with no new funding. Reserves of more than 0.50 years receive full credit Source: Public data from IRS Form 990. Fiscal Years 2024, 2023, 2022. |
| 100% | Fundraising Efficiency:$0.10 to raise a dollar Cost to raise $1 in charitable contributions. A cost of less than $0.20 per dollar raised receives full credit. Source: Public data from IRS Form 990. Fiscal Years 2024, 2023, 2022. |