Metcalfe Park Community Bridges Inc
Overview
Mission
We aim to create a neighborhood where residents are safe, connected to each other, participate in community and civic life, have access to educational and economic opportunities, and celebrate diversity and culture.
What it reported doing in 2024
To assure safety for metcalfe park residents and create safe spaces in our neighborhood by working with partners to develop parks as public spaces where children, youth, families, and adults can congregate, interact, become acquainted with each other and engage in activites that support better health outcomes as well as community spirit.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% 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
- 812101846
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2018, Form 990-N 2015
- Headquarters
- Milwaukee, WI, USA
- Phone
- 4146161688
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 65
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.7%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 94.5%; rating input score 94
- Fundraising efficiency: $55.38 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 79; 79th 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
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.8%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.78; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 26.4%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 28.1% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 21.9% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 27% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 93.7% of revenue deployed · 94.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 5 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $767K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $119K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 7 annual filings from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
- 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
7 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- DANELL CROSS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $118,895 total reported compensation
- MELODY MCCURTIS (DEPUTY DIRECTOR): $85,405 total reported compensation
- PATRICE GRANSBERRY (CO-TREASURER): $9,893 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: FY2024.