Aspiring Students Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 832315173
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2020
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2020
- Location
- Atlanta, GA, USA
- Phone
- 6789733876
- Rating
- 52
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,947
- Expenses
- $1,850
- Assets
- $486
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Joanne Jones (President)
People named in this filing
- Taizja Martin (Organizer)
- Tameka Sears (Founder)
- Joanne Jones (President)
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
Mentoring, Encouraging and empowering youth is our mission. We provide tutoring, clothing and food giveaways, and assist other non profit organizations with similar missions. We offer a wide variety of sports and occupational training.
What it reported doing in 2020
We provided free tutoring for 55 children in the subjects of ELA, math, and social studies. We awarded 4 youth between the ages of 5-14 with academics and athletic scholarships. We coached and mentored over 500 youth between the ages of 4-16. We gave free wigs to 3 children suffering severe hair loss due to cancer, burns and other illnesses and diseases. We provided pre- packaged food items, clothing and toiletries to our homeless community. We also assisted other non profit organizations accomplish their mission.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 75% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. 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: 12
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 10.2%; rating input score 10
- Program expense ratio: 16.2%; rating input score 16
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 37.2%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.26; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -180.3% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 51.6% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 54.1% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 10.2% of revenue deployed · 16.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $300 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2019 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 10/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 16/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.