Building Responsible Intelligent Creative Kids
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 270820249
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2009
- Location
- Newark, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 8622361333
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Management & Technical Assistance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,090,748
- Expenses
- $6,118,316
- Assets
- $9,545,668
- Liabilities
- $10,424,032
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
23 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DOMINIQUE D LEE (CEO)
- CHRISTOPHER PERPICH (PRESIDENT)
- GWEN MARTINEZ (VICE PRESIDENT OF FINANCE)
- ANTWAN BARLOW (REGIONAL EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- DOMINIQUE D LEE (CEO): $272,661 total reported compensation
- CHRISTOPHER PERPICH (PRESIDENT): $213,822 total reported compensation
- CHALEETA HINES (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $196,303 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
At brick, we help children and families achieve their dreams by providing support from early childhood to career readiness. We focus on three key areasholistic support, excellent schools, and college and career services to nurture personal and collective prosperity.
What it reported doing in 2024
Brick is on a mission to support families from pre-cradle-to-career through holistic support, excellent schools, and clear pathways to college and career. By creating a comprehensive network of services, we are righting the wrongs of racial and economic inequality and paving the way for families to forge futures abundant with opportunity, wellness, and joy.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 61% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 84% 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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 17
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 75.4%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: $14.11 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd 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: -49.6%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.56; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.09; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 39.2%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.6% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.9% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 24.7% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 75.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $273K · 23 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $260K reported
- Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 15 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 4 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 49/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.