Van Cortlandt Park Alliance
Overview
Mission
Van Cortlandt Park Alliance preserves, supports and promotes the recreational, ecological and historical value of Van Cortlandt Park.
What it reported doing in 2024
Cultural VCPA offers cultural programming for the community including the Enslaved People Project which focuses on bringing to light the history of the people who lived on the land that became Van Cortlandt Park Barefoot Dancing and virtual programming.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 69% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 133843182
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Headquarters
- Bronx, NY, USA
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 55
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 54.8%; rating input score 55
- Program expense ratio: 64.8%; rating input score 65
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.12 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Public governance controls: Limited
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15.8%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 1.05; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.7%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.1% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.1% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21.9% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 54.8% of revenue deployed · 64.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 20 of 20 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $726K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $210K · 22 people listed
- Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 annual filings from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- 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.