Achieving Community Task Successfully
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 455172290
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2020, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Houston, TX, USA
- Phone
- 7135531907
- Rating
- 37
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $467,526
- Expenses
- $453,891
- Assets
- $697,472
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Bridgette Murray (Executive Director)
- Cleophus Sharp (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Bridgette Murray (Executive Director): $18,000 total reported compensation
- Tracy Stephens (SecretaryTreasurer): $15,000 total reported compensation
- Cleophus Sharp (Vice President): $6,500 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our work is directed toward neighborhood empowerment through expert resource collaborations, community engagement, and implementing initiatives that serve and impact the community.
What it reported doing in 2024
A community-based nonprofit organization that seeks to leverage citizen science, training, and community engagement to address both environmental and social justice.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 9
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: Limited
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.9%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.54; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.7%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -94.6% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 24.5% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 27.6% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $18K · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 12 of 12 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 30/100.