Austin Upper Ninety Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 821574038
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2021
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021
- Location
- Austin, TX, USA
- Phone
- 5125676600
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Soccer
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $-10,000
- Expenses
- $19,916
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KAITLIN MAURO (FOUNDER & CEO)
People named in this filing
- LOUISE HANKS (BOARD MEMBER)
- PAUL DEFELICE (TREASURER)
- KERI SANCHEZ (BOARD MEMBER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To help students from low-income austin communities thrive in high school and beyond.
What it reported doing in 2021
During 2021, the organization disolved. The remaining funds were donated to 4atx foundation.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 13
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: 100%; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -299.2%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -23.5% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -46.4% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -28.8% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $20K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 11 of 11 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2017 to 2021
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.