City Fabrick
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
Mission is to promote, advance and support sustainable and replicable urban planning and development practices, programs and projects, through research, education and technical support to agencies, institutions, organizations and the public in Long Beach, California and nearby areas.
- Income
- $1.9 million
- Spending
- $2.1 million
- Spent on programs
- 79%
- Reserves
- 2 months of spending
- Largest source of income
- fees for its services, 92%
- Employees
- 21
- Highest pay
- $127,500, executive director
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Financial health
Weak: 44 out of 100. Higher than 14% of charities in its peer group (community improvement, $1m to $10m).
Reserves
10 of 35Spendable reserves would cover 2.0 months of spending.
Debt
5 of 20It owes 54% of what it owns.
Living within its means
4 of 15Spending exceeded income by 12% of income.
Income trend
10 of 15Income fell 4% on the year before.
Spending floor
15 of 1579% of spending went to programs and raising each dollar of donations cost 0 cents.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Governance
Weak: 20 out of 100. Higher than 1% of charities in its peer group (community improvement, $1m to $10m).
Independent board
5 of 250 of 7 voting board members are independent.
Conflict of interest policy
0 of 15Reports no written conflict of interest policy.
Whistleblower policy
0 of 8Reports no written whistleblower policy.
Record keeping policy
0 of 7Reports no written policy on keeping and destroying records.
Board minutes
5 of 5Keeps minutes of board meetings.
Board sees the tax return
0 of 10Did not give the board a copy of this return before filing it.
Pay set independently
0 of 5Reports no independent review process for its chief executive's pay.
Independent check of accounts
0 of 15Its accounts were not audited or reviewed by an independent accountant.
No reported misuse
10 of 10Reports no diversion of assets, excess benefits or loans to insiders.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (9)
- $386,130 spent. AFFORDABLE HOUSINGArchways Santa Ana, completed in 2024, offers 85 affordable homes in Santa Ana, including units for extremely low-income households and permanent supportive housing. Three buildings surround interconnected paseos, courtyards, and a mini park, creating spaces that encourage connection and community. City Fabrick partnered with Community Development Partners on community engagement, schematic-level landscape, building, and graphic design, helping shape a development thats both functional and welcoming. With amenities like a community room, play areas, garden beds, and easy access to public transit, Archways Santa Ana demonstrates how thoughtful design supports residents well-being and long-term stability.Construction has wrapped up on the first phase of Community Develop?ment Partners adaptive reuse of a former Motel 6 property into over forty permanent supportive homes for formerly unsheltered residents in Costa Mesa. Soon after opening, california Governor Gavin Newsom toured the new community to showcase the success of the Homekey program, which is providing financial and regulatory support for similar hotel to permanent supportive homes conversions. The Governor shared his admiration to local officials, CDP, and partner Mercy House for the success of this development to transform a formerly blighting property into a community asset. The expanded design will continue repositioning the former auto-oriented motel into an integrated, supportive community for those most in need of affordable, dignified homes. The new outdoor spaces will include an outdoor living room and sun deck offering these residents unique experiences to enjoy and build social connections with their neighbors. Mesa Vista Phase 2 is scheduled to start construction at the beginning of 2025.
- $292,961 spent. GREAT PARKS AND PLACES ENVISION LONG BEACH PARKSCity Fabrick is collaborating with our community partners and the City of Long Beach to imagine the future of Scherer Park and Martin Luther King Jr. Park. In front of a crowd of community supporters the Long Beach City Council recently approved the Martin Luther King Jr. Park vision plan. With support from the Long Beach Alliance for Food and Fitness and Resource Legacy Fund we collaborated with residents and community partners to consider the current park conditions and imagine the future of the park to servecurrent and prospective users. Emerging from that community design process is the new Friends of King Park, who will be champions for the vision plans implementation and stewards for its sustained vibrancy. On the heels of the adoption of King Park Vision Plan the Long Beach City Council approved the second one for Scherer Park. We were fortunate tocollaborate with Long Beach Parks, Recreation, and Marine and the Boysand Girls Club of Long Beach to engage residents, partners, and park users how the park can evolve to continue serving the community and even improve the park user experience. The central tenant of reimagining the park was to utilize the large scale of the park and unique configuration to create unique park experiences. This includes creating hubs of activity while withdrawing activity to create passive natural spaces that host verdant landscapes, and dense tree canopies that collectively create a vibrant wildlife habitat amongst this largely built-out community.
- $194,790 spent. WEST LOS ANGELES VETERANS AFFAIRSAs the US Department of Veteran Affairs Master Plan continues to completion, City Fabrick has been guiding the Community Plans development of over 1,2000 supportive homes, collaborating with dozens of partners to define this action-oriented, inclusive vision. Partners, dignitaries, and residents gathered as Buildings 158 and 210 celebrated a ground-breaking ceremony. Century Housing is adaptively reusing Building 158 as permanent supportive homes to serve formerly homeless Veterans. USVETS are doing the same to Building 210, both within the North Village of the community plan. This marks the start of phase 2 for the development team, which includes the US Department of Veterans Affairs and Thomas Safran and Associates. City Fabrick led the community planning process and continued to support landscape, graphic, and urban design.
- $177,268 spent. TRANSFORMING SHORELINE DRIVEIn February 2023, Congressman Robert Garcia announced that the City of Long Beach had been awarded $30 million of federal transportation funds to support transforming Shoreline Drive into a multimodal boulevard while doubling the size of the adjacent Cesar Chavez Park. City Fabrick collaborated with the Congress for New Urbanism to develop the initial report that demonstrates the opportunities for reimagining the two-mile long freeway spur that separates Downtown Long Beach from the Los Angeles River and waterfront. This will be an absolutely transformative project for Long Beach, trading a car-oriented piece of concrete for people centered green space that is honestly needed in this community, Brian Ulaszewski said in the Longbeachize story. Later in the year, the City shared plans for the expanded project that includes replacing the Shoemaker Bridge will an elegant structure that will provide a grand gateway into the Downtown.
- $177,007 spent. MISCELLEANOUS PROGRAMS
- $149,080 spent. LONG BEACH PARKSLong Beachs oldest and newest parkthe downtown civic centers recently redeveloped Lincoln Parkis being activated by a collective of community partners including the City of Long Beach, Downtown Long Beach Alliance, S111, and City Fabrick. With financial support from the Long Beach Community Foundation, Knight Foundation, and interTrend, the team is developing a model for enhanced programming and management of the park through public-private partnerships. The growing Lincoln Park collaborative has had some early success supporting unique programming and increased management strategies while City Fabrick is developing a sustaining organization along with associated communications and engagement.
- $146,242 spent. MICRO-UNITS IN LONG BEACHWe continue collaborating with Burnham Development and their various partners on creating a multitude of innovative micro-unit developments in Downtown Long Beach as we collectively seek ways to meet the missing middle of housing affordability. We have submitted to the City of Long Beach for planning approvals of two new compact living communities in the North Pine and East Village neighborhoods in the Downtown. 711 Pine will have nearly fifty efficient one-bedroom units while 421 East 4th Street has nearly one hundred studios, both mixed-income consisting of market-rate and deed-restricted affordable homes. Both proposals have abundant common amenities and outdoor spaces, much of which is located on the top floors, providing residents incredible views of the Southland.
- $94,441 spent. COSTA MESA FOR PARK IMPROVEMENTSOver the past year our Landscape Design team has been collaborating with the City of Costa Mesa and Pat West, to engage community members and partners to develop visions for redesigning and expanding two neighborhood parks on the Westside of the city. Shalimar Park is a pocket park that is designed to spill out into the public right-of-way turning the adjacent streetscape into an engaging place for play. The design for Ketchum-Libolt Park will expand available green space by removing a large unused concrete pad and block wall.
- $80,889 spent. LADOT - COMMUNITIES FOR SAFER STREETCity Fabrick wrapped up a multi-year collaboration with the Los Angeles Departmentof Transportation to develop community-based visions for improving safety along nearly a dozen high-risk corridors across the city. Working with partners including LADOT, Dakota Communications, People for Mobility Justice, CCE Consulting Group, Sumire Gant Consulting, and local organizations, we used a range of engagement strategies to educate, listen, and co-create solutions that enhance safety,accessibility, and livability. City Fabrick led engagement activities, developed visualiza?tions of the streetscape, and supported planning and data analysis. We are grateful to all our partners and community members who shared their expertise and time to help shape these corridors.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Passed.
On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending December 2024.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since January 2012.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated October 21, 2026.
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