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LA COMPOST

EIN 46-1134852 LOS ANGELES, CA

Revenue 2024
$1,829,087
Expenses 2024
$2,530,657

Program services were 60.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B90
Classification
1000
Street
221 W AVENUE 45

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

LA COMPOST RESTORES LOST CONNECTIONS TO THE SOIL AND ONE ANOTHER. COOPERATIVELY WITH A DIVERSE NETWORK OF PARTNERS WITHIN LA COUNTY, WE CO- CREATE SPACES FOR LOCAL COMPOST ACCESS AND ENGAGEMENT, RESTORATIVE PRACTICES, AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT.

Activities or mission (Part I)

WE BUILD AND FACILITATE COMPOSITING COMMUNITIES THROUGHOUT LA COUNTY. OUR MISSION AT LA COMPOST IS TO CONNECT THE PEOPLE OF LOS ANGELES TO THE SOIL AND EACH OTHER.

  • LA COMPOST COMMUNITY HUBS

    Expenses $186,022

  • FARMERS MARKET FOOD SCRAP DROP-OFF PROGRAM: 3,500 COMMUNITY MEMBERS ENGAGED

    Expenses $227,017

  • REGIONAL HUBS

    Expenses $275,737

  • OTHER PROGRAMS

    Expenses $848,112 · Revenue $146,645

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • MICHAEL MARTINEZ

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $140,408
    From this org
    $140,408
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • ROBBIE MARTIN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • CHARLES SOUTHWARD

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • MICHELLE BARTON

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • SARAH DELEVAN

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • SHANNON WRIGHT

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,829,087
    Expenses
    $2,530,657
    Contributions
    $1,615,029
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,538,193
    Expenses
    $1,619,994
    Contributions
    $2,044,181
    Grants paid
    $110,731
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,056,955
    Expenses
    $1,137,381
    Contributions
    $817,211
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $974,526
    Expenses
    $768,450
    Assets (EOY)
    $575,858

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $851,580
    Expenses
    $641,311
    Assets (EOY)
    $421,625

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $492,532
    Expenses
    $406,854
    Assets (EOY)
    $138,983

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $272,078
    Expenses
    $273,969
    Assets (EOY)
    $132,028

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $206,625
    Expenses
    $173,466
    Assets (EOY)
    $94,116

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2016

Tax period
1 January 2016 to 31 December 2016
Principal officer
Michael Martinez
Mailing address
221 West Avenue 45Los Angeles CA 90065
Website
www.lacompost.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

  • SELF HELP GRAPHICS

    $59,531

    2023 DONATION

  • NEHEMIAH GROUP

    $50,000

    2023 DONATION

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Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.