Brownsville Partnership Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 832855002
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, USA
- Phone
- 6467974374
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Housing Development, Construction, Management
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,165,035
- Expenses
- $2,304,657
- Assets
- $1,517,137
- Liabilities
- $2,539,695
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BENJAMIN WISE (PRESIDENT)
- ANITA LUCKETT (CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (OUTGOING))
- DAVID HARRINGTON (CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- ROSANNE HAGGERTY (SECRETARY (OUTGOING)): $356,421 total reported compensation
- JAMES DOYLE (CONTRACTED CFO): $251,707 total reported compensation
- DONNA SMITH (OPERATIONS MANAGER (OUTGOING)): $159,276 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Brownswille partnership, inc is a non-profit organization that was incorporated to increase access to permanent and affordable housing inthe brownsville community located in kings county.
What it reported doing in 2024
Brownsville partnership, inc., doing business as united for brownsville, is a community-driven, brooklyn nonprofit with proven success helping the predominantly black and brown children and families of brownsville flourish. We promote access to healthy and stable housing, financial well-being, education, and health needs across the community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 72% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 17
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.2%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 86.7%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $14.15 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 17th 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: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: No; rating input score 0
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6.4%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.66; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.67; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 22.1%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 21.9% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 22.7% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 30.2% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 92.2% of revenue deployed · 86.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 3 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $356K · 8 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 29 of 30 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 9 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Related-party transparency scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.