Augustine Literacy Project - Triangle
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472832907
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2018, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Durham, NC, USA
- Phone
- 4082501027
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $104,387
- Expenses
- $154,986
- Assets
- $141,330
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JENNIFER MALINS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- JENNIFER MALINS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $44,328 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Alp-t trains, places, and supports tutors at partner schools to deliver free, one-to-one, science-based literacy instruction to students who need additional support.
What it reported doing in 2024
During the spring 2025, we decided to change our program model to a scalable model that allows better oversight of instruction and data, as well as community building. Under the supervision of alp staff, augustine-trained tutors provided personalized literacy instruction to k-2 students reading below grade level. This model was implemented in the fall of 2025. As part of the new implementation, we developed our first-ever formal partnership with a large school district. Our program also builds community capacity for literacy support by training and mentoring new volunteer tutors each year. These volunteers commit to tutoring at least twice weekly for a full academic year, extending the reach of high-quality literacy instruction to children who might otherwise go without it. Through these efforts, alp-t strengthens educational equity and empowers children with the fundamental skill of reading needed for personal and professional success in life.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.4%; rating input score 99
- Program expense ratio: 66.9%; rating input score 67
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.91 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -48.5%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.91; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 28.6%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -14.3% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -16.4% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -12.2% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 99.4% of revenue deployed · 66.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $104K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $44K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.