Assertive Kids Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
831106745
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2018–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Staten Island, NY, USA
Phone
8772353319
Rating
38
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$4,119
Expenses
$2,125
Assets
$34,669
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

2 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Donn Albano (President)

People named in this filing

  • Donn Albano (President)
  • Heather Miller (Secretary)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Assertive Kids is a community organization dedicated to fostering assertiveness and well-being in kids and adults. We seek to teach individuals to be assertive instead of passive or aggressive through workshops, literature, and web presence. Our programs will help bring awareness to the topic of ageism and aging. As assertive persons, we shall take part in sharing the responsibility for the well-being of our community by helping homeless to be kept warm and fed, and thus reduce their suffering in simple ways. We shall brighten our neighborhoods by providing flowers to homeowners, public housing residents,& businesses in our area. We seek to fund studies related to epigenetics as this relates to helping pregnant women receive better healthcare & have a better, healthier pregnancy,& helping individuals battling addiction, among other research topics. We shall use funds provided by the general public to provide for those less fortunate, and to help provide for a beautiful community

What it reported doing in 2024

Contributions listed in previous sections of the IRS Form 990EZ for FY 2019 were provided to the following families in Staten Island, New Jersey, and the surrounding areas: Dee's granddaughter, Kayla's daughter Iris's four children, Alisa's two children, Lornetta's five children, Kristy's three girls and one boy, Rachel's two daughters, Diana's daughter, Breanna's daughter, Donna's daughter, Jasmine's daughter and twin sons, Saide's daughter, Adrianna's three daughters and one son. Altogether, 30 children were helped. Out of these, 5 were in Mariner's Harbor, 12 were in New Brighton, 4 were in Arlington, 3 were in Elm Park, one was in Dongan Hills Projects, one was in New Jersey, 2 were in Brooklyn Projects, 1 was in a Queens Project, and 1 was in Manhattan. Several of the children helped were finally receiving a permanent home after leaving a shelter, and one of them was previously in foster care and being returned to her birth mom. The ethnicity of the children were as follows: 14 were Black/African American, 4 were White/Caucasian, 11 were Hispanic. In addition to these individual families, Assertive Kids also donated chocolate bars and candy, as well as a Tofurky Vegetarian Feast, to several local food banks and food pantries on Staten Island, including Project Hospitality, Salvation Army, and the Seventh Day Adventist Church. These all serve disadvantaged local communities with fresh food on a weekly or more frequent basis. The Salvation Army received the Tofurky very happily, as they have a vegetarian family that comes for their annual Thanksgiving Dinner, and in 2019 they had a real Thanksgiving feast with a turkey and all the trimmings.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 85
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 48.4%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 16.31; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -50.8% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -9.2% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 42.9% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 13 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2024
  • 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.