American Institute of Positivity

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 800470864
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2018–2020
Forms available: Form 990-EZ 2020, Form 990-N 2019
Location: Philadelphia, PA, USA
Phone: 2158770889
Rating: 68
Verdict: SUPPORTED
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Educational Services and Schools - Other

Reported finances

Revenue: $71,666
Expenses: $67,495
Assets: $4,171

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

1 person listed

People named in this filing

JOHN ANDERSON (Executive Dir.)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The american institute of positivity's basic mission is to wage a war against negativity in general and teen age violence in particular.

What it reported doing in 2020

Enabled individuals to respect, relate, develope skills to interact with others. To learn how to set goals and respect themselves.

Operating model

Revenue model: Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 64
Transparency & Controls: 82
Sustainability: 34
Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 61.8%; rating input score 62
Program expense ratio: 65.7%; rating input score 66

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

Operating margin: 5.8%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.06; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: -56.1% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: -35.6% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: 100% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 61.8% of revenue deployed · 65.7% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $44K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
Schedules: 2 filed schedules
Filing history: 2 filing years from 2018 to 2020
Contacts: How to reach this organization
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.

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High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 54/100.
Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.