Attles Center for Excellence

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
825526376
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2019–2020
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2020, Form 990-N 2018
Location
Oakland, CA, USA
Rating
75
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$76,361
Expenses
$48,776
Assets
$72,352
Liabilities
$8,744

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

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Keith Powell (CEO)

People named in this filing

  • Alvin Attles III (Founder)
  • Keith Powell (CEO)
  • Ricky Robinson (Board Director)

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

Our VISION is to provide a pathway to lifelong excellence for at-risk youth. Our MISSION is to empower underserved youth to optimize their opportunities for lifelong success through engagement in innovative STEAM programming entrepreneurial experiences and health & wellness.

What it reported doing in 2020

In partnership with Latitude High School in Oakland CA we launched Town Academy. Phase I was our case management mentoring program for the 11th grade. Small group mentoring featuring a social-emotional curriculum along with college and career advocacy emotional intelligence social justice financial literacy and life-long skills that will lead students to be successful contributors to their community and beyond. We laid a foundation for students by offering a nine-week module with our community partner Zymbolic restorative justice experts who provide social-emotional learning with a twist. The module provides a framework for the students to receive mentoring create networks and build communication skills. The module will be divided into two parts: Explore their innate social capacities through the neuroscience of the human connection. Restorative practices conflict resolution and high-stakes dialogue. Mentored 45 students.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% 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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 58
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 60
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 48.1%; rating input score 48
  • Program expense ratio: 75.2%; rating input score 75

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: 36.1%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.48; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 80% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 32.2% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 48.1% of revenue deployed · 75.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $37K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2019 to 2020
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 48/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.