Black Child Development Institute Ohio
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 823985002
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Beachwood, OH, USA
- Phone
- 2162025172
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $293,751
- Expenses
- $276,705
- Assets
- $385,005
- Liabilities
- $214,952
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GLORIA BLEVINS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- GLORIA BLEVINS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $64,125 total reported compensation
- ROBYN GIBSON (BOARD CHAIR): $7,350 total reported compensation
- SHARON CALHOUN (BOARD MEMBER): $1,256 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 organization's mission is to improve and advance the lives of black and brown children through education and advocacy throughout Ohio.
What it reported doing in 2024
Ece hub - early childhood hub that delivers culturally responsive early childhood mental health services, increase lead awareness, support educators in delivering professional development that centers trauma and supporting challenging behaviors.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 88% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% 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. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 60
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.5%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 78%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: $9.41 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 37; 37th 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: 54.5%; rating input score 55; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.8%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.39; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.56; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 27.1%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 70.4% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 41.9% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 54.7% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 73.5% of revenue deployed · 78% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 11 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $216K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $64K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 55/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 37/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.