Big Bend Jobs and Education Council Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 593633062
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Tallahassee, FL, USA
- Phone
- 8504146085
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Employment Procurement Assistance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,834,866
- Expenses
- $4,859,873
- Assets
- $1,423,898
- Liabilities
- $1,076,786
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
23 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JAMES MCSHANE (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- JAMES MCSHANE (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $147,527 total reported compensation
- MATTHEW SALERA (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $118,758 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The purpose of careersource capital region (cscr) is to provide for enhanced coordination, cooperation, collaboration, and outcomes, by and between the several entities, both public and private, which are involved at the local level in providing youth and adults with opportunities to develop and continuously upgrade their knowledge and skills to advance economically and socially. As the business community (employers) is the primary customer of the workforce system, cscr also focuses on providing employers with the skilled workforce necessary to be competitive in local, state, national, and/or global markets.
What it reported doing in 2024
Careersource capital region connects employers with qualified, skilled talent and floridians with employment and career development opportunities to achieve economic prosperity in gadsden, leon, wakulla and jefferson counties.solutions for career seekers include one-on-one career advising, interviewing and resume-writing assistance, employment workshops, and labor market information. Solutions for employers include recruitment assistance, skills assessments for applicants, customized training, and information on tax incentives. Employers and career seekers are matched through the employ Florida marketplace system. Most solutions are provided at no cost.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 99% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 49% for direct work, and 51% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - 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: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 89
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94.4%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 93.2%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 97.7%; rating input score 98; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- 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: -0.5%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.29; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.76; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.5%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.4% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 94.4% of revenue deployed · 93.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 21 of 21 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $148K · 23 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $680K reported
- Consistency: 35 of 36 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 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.
- 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 50/100.