Bedford-stuyvesant Community Legal Services
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 112149962
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2016
- Forms available
- Form 990 2016
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 6464423600
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Human Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $976,951
- Expenses
- $759,167
- Assets
- $409,657
- Liabilities
- $2,215
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2016. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BETTY E STATON (President)
Highest reported compensation
- RAUN RASMUSSEN (Executive Dir.): $201,481 total reported compensation
- BETTY E STATON (President): $54,384 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2016. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Bedford - Stuyvesant Community Legal Services is a not-for-profit corporation organized for the purposes of providing legal assistance in noncriminal proceedings, or matters, to indigent persons in the New York City area.
What it reported doing in 2016
INCOME MAINTENANCE - We help people access and retain government benefits. Through our secure income and benefits work, we: Assist clients when government benefits are being wrongfully denied, inaccurately calculated, or improperly terminated; and Represent families and individuals for whom Unemployment Insurance, Food Stamps, Medicaid/Medicare and other public assistance and Safety Net programs are a critical lifeline.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 66.1%; rating input score 66
- Program expense ratio: 85.1%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $82.3 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 22.3%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.54; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.2%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -6.3% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.5% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 66.1% of revenue deployed · 85.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $646K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $201K · 13 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 22 of 23 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2010 to 2016
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 5 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.