At the Table Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
850992541
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2019
Location
New York, NY, USA
Phone
3027431362
Rating
86
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Educational Services and Schools - Other

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,274,174
Expenses
$1,259,229
Assets
$545,325
Liabilities
$82,631

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

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • BRAD HARGREAVES (PRESIDENT)
  • MICHAEL ZINK (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • MICHAEL ZINK (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $94,875 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

We are building a world where every student in foster care gets a good education, believes in their ability and potential, and is connected to people who support their dreams.

What it reported doing in 2024

At the table connects students currently and formerly in foster care in New York city with long-term personalized tutoring and advising from full-time educators who earn roles as mentors and trusted advisors. Students in our program also have access to a rapid-response basic needs fund and on-demand support from a college navigator who can assist with securing resources like food and housing, planning through crises, and more. During fy25, we expanded our tutoring / advising team to 13 full-time staff capable of serving 165 students at one time. Over the course of the year, we held 3,400 sessions with 182 students, and our students posted their highest college persistence rate ever: 88% of at the table students enrolled in college during fall 2024 returned for their fall 2025 semester, excluding graduates. Of the students we served in the first two academic years of our program (2020-21 and 2021-22), over 50% now have college degrees and we project more than 60% will ultimately earn them. This is over five times the college graduation rate predicted by the available outcomes data for college-enrolled students with lived experience of foster care.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 82% 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.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 81
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 34
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 84.8%; rating input score 85
  • Program expense ratio: 85.8%; rating input score 86
  • Fundraising efficiency: $13.2 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 47; 47th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 1.2%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.43; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 7.5%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 39.7% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 32.7% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 32.2% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 84.8% of revenue deployed · 85.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $1.1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $95K · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 47/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 45/100.