Center for Urban Exellence

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
825055467
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Vallejo, CA, USA
Phone
9199092504
Rating
70
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Media, Communications Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$613,517
Expenses
$745,208
Assets
$78,796
Liabilities
$26,532

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Reina Robinson (Chief Executive Officer)

People named in this filing

  • Mariah Castro (Director of Operations)
  • Anisa Smith (Chief Workforce Officer)
  • Reina Robinson (Chief Executive Officer)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

We foster resilience in system-involved youth cultivating wellness antifragility and igniting transformation through holistic educational economic social and artistic opportunities.

What it reported doing in 2025

May 2022: Collaboration with the Museum of Children & Art with funding from the California Arts Council our Art is Resilience program piloted at Golden Gate Charter School allowing us to provide weekly visual and poetry arts programs to more youth. 8. May 2022: We earned recognition and support from the Department of Health Care Services through a grant to develop our capacity thereby increasing access to resilience economic and social opportunities for youth of color in Solano and Contra Costa counties. 9. November 2022: Our collaboration with the Museum of Children' s Art for the NEA Big Read project brought the community together through readings poetry writing discussions and art-making. 10. December 2022: Co-authoring " The Media and Me: A Guide to Critical Media Literacy for Young People" further cemented our commitment to fostering critical media literacy among our youth.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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 - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 41
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Accountability: 88
  • Sustainability: 16
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 36%; rating input score 36
  • Program expense ratio: 29.6%; rating input score 30
  • Fundraising efficiency: $8,180.23 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • 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: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -21.5%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.11; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.34; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 21.6% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 27.1% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 0% per year; rating input score 100; 15th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 36% of revenue deployed · 29.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 5 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $221K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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: Mission deployment rate scored 36/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 30/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.