Brooklyn Boulders Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 454955338
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2020
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2020
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, USA
- Phone
- 3478349066
- Rating
- 94
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Amateur Sports
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $32,067
- Expenses
- $66,373
- Assets
- $27,682
- Liabilities
- $332,996
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SUNNIE KAUFMANN-PAULMAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- LANCE PINN (DIRECTOR/MEMBER)
- BRANDON BELL (TREASURER)
- SUNNIE KAUFMANN-PAULMAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Activity for inner city youth/disabled
What it reported doing in 2020
"city rocks" - empowers students of low-income communities to develop self-confidence, creativity and the ability to succeed through the sport of rock climbing and mentorships
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 12
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 88.3%; rating input score 88
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -107%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.42; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 12.03; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 25.4%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 21% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.4% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 88.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $59K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2012 to 2020
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.