Building Lives Family Development Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 300706918
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2017, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Yonkers, NY, USA
- Phone
- 3476803231
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $970,644
- Expenses
- $970,486
- Assets
- $158
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lajuana Hill (CEO)
- Keyanna Williams (President)
People named in this filing
- Lajuana Hill (CEO)
- Keyanna Williams (President)
- Jubria Hill (Treasury)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization is dedicated to empowering young adults aged 18 and above by offering hands-on workforce training and job development opportunities. Through community-based fundraising initiatives and employment readiness programs participants receive support in the form of stipends training and wraparound services to alleviate financial stress. By focusing on equipping individuals with practical job skills the organization aims to foster long-term economic stability and facilitate their transition into full-time employment ensuring a brighter future for the participants.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization operated a workforce development and job readiness program serving approximately 90 to 110 participants age 18 and older from the Bronx Queens Brooklyn and Manhattan. Participants engaged in hands-on job training through volunteer-based fundraising activities at major events held at Yankee Stadium where they supported concession stand operations and gained real-world experience in customer service cashier and cooking teamwork time management and workplace responsibility. Participants served as volunteers and were not classified as employees. The organization does not have paid staff or W-2 employees. In recognition of volunteer participation the organization provided stipends as gifts to help alleviate financial burdens related to transportation food clothing and other essential needs. In addition to stipends the organization provided job readiness training employment support mentoring transportation assistance meals and clothing to participants. Fundraising activities were supported through a revenue-sharing arrangement in which the organization received approximately 10% of concession sales generated at Yankee Stadium events with proceeds directly funding program operations and participant support services. The programs primary objective is to prepare participants for future full-time employment by offering hands-on work experience skill development and supportive services that promote long-term self-sufficiency and economic stability.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 100% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.9%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 95.9%; rating input score 96
- Fundraising efficiency: $0 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 43.9% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 17.3% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -61.5% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 95.9% of revenue deployed · 95.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $931K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 38 of 39 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 1/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.