The Alpha Workshops Inc
Overview
Mission
The Alpha worshops provide a new model of economic development for people living with HIV/AIDS or other visible or invisible disabilities.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organizations primary activities consist of training and employing people living with HIV/AIDS in the decorative arts, through the development of a unique training curriculum combined with a supportive workplace responsive to the medical, financial and special needs of its employees can be met.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 79% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The nonprofit carried out 100% of its reported program work directly.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 133839867
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Headquarters
- Brooklyn, NY, USA
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Employment Procurement Assistance
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 15
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 98.8%; rating input score 99
- Program expense ratio: 74.7%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
- Public monitoring controls: Limited
- Public policy transparency: Limited
- Public financial transparency: Limited
- Impact reporting controls: Limited
- Public relationship transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Public governance controls: Limited
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -32.2%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 0.2; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 2.47; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 98.8% of revenue deployed · 74.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $657K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 25 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 annual filings from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.