Cafe Au Play - Your Community Connection
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 201277557
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2015
- Forms available
- Form 990 2014, Form 990-EZ 2015, Form 990-N 2009
- Location
- Vancouver, WA, USA
- Phone
- 5038948506
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Theater
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $87,327
- Expenses
- $108,003
- Assets
- $11,624
- Liabilities
- $4,084
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2015. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
People named in this filing
- KRISTEN HEYING (Executive Dir.)
- JOSH LIGHTHIPE (PRES & TREASUR)
- ANNIE BOSWORTH FOLEY (Secretary)
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 2015. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Cafe au Play is a community center / coffeehouse designed to meet the needs of diverse families for a comfortable accessible space that encourages social interaction, genuine and sustainable support, creative stimulation, and community inclusion. Cafe au Play provides family support, educational, health, and creative arts programs for adults and children. Cafe au Play's secondary purpose is to offer high school and college-aged students the opportunity to learn job skills and connect with staff mentors, families and the larger community by participating in our Barista Training Program.
What it reported doing in 2015
Cafe au Play's Barista Job Skills Training ProgramCafe au Play's Barista Training Program provides job skills training for high school and college-aged students. This free apprenticeship provides job skills training and resume-building experience for high school and college-aged students to help them break into the cafe and restaurant industries. Participants receive free training while contributing to Cafe au Play. In addition to learning the hands-on skills associated with barista and cafe work, such as knife use and milk steaming, barista training students dedicate time on every shift to set personal goals. Cafe au Play staff teach the essential concepts that are important to all employers such as taking initiative, problem-solving, strong work ethic, efficiency, and customer service. To participate in this program, students must commit to working 2 three-hour training shifts/week for six months.Introductory Barista Training Program: This is the first 150 hours of training. These hours can be completed over the duration of 6 months to 6 weeks depending on the length and frequency of trainings. Participants will be taught the basics of making orders, learn about espresso and milk steaming, and build fundamental skills such as customer service and efficiency. They also learn how to master caf work flow and develop basic food service and barista skills. Upon completion of our Introductory Program, students may decide, with the consent of staff, to move onto our Advanced Program.Advanced Barista Training Program: This part of the program is an additional 150 hours of training and requires a minimum of 2 three-hour shifts per week. Students are encouraged to take on longer shifts to experience a more typical caf work shift. Participants will be taught more advanced skills such as baking, mentoring and shift management. They will also have the opportunity to get involved with Night Grounds Coffeehouse (our student-run caf) and master the skills they learned in our Introductory Program.Caf au Plays Barista Training Program gives students the opportunity to develop marketable job skills and learn how to work in the caf industry. Students are offered the invaluable experience of working alongside staff mentors in a fully functioning caf and community hub. Caf au Plays Barista Training Program qualifies for the work for credit program offered at most schools and can be used to fulfill community service hours.REVENUE AND EXPENSE LINE INCLUDE THAT FOR ALL PROGRAM ACTIVITIES
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 14
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.6%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 57.9%; rating input score 58
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -23.7%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.11; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.35; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 41.7%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -83.7% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -106.9% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 71.6% of revenue deployed · 57.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $63K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 58/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.