The City School Inc
Overview
Mission
To Develop Youth Leadership for Civic Involvement and Social Change.
What it reported doing in 2023
Other Employee Benefits
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 65% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 020532474
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2023
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023
- Headquarters
- Dorchester, MA, USA
- Phone
- 6178223075
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
The verdict
SUPPORTED - 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 a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 50
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 46.1%; rating input score 46
- Program expense ratio: 48.1%; rating input score 48
- Fundraising efficiency: $43.66 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.2%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.57; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.1% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 46.1% of revenue deployed · 48.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $615K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 23 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 annual filings from 2011 to 2023
- 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.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: FY2023.