Central Community Development Corp
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 455391838
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2025051938
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Employment Procurement Assistance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $180,869
- Expenses
- $393,171
- Assets
- $715,674
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KEYONNA JONES (VICE CHAIR AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- KEYONNA JONES (VICE CHAIR AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $32,083 total reported compensation
- BARBARA THOMPSON (SECRETARY TREASURER): $27,500 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To play a pivotal role in the socio-economic upliftment of the congress heights area with business development, job training, and educational initiatives. It also operates an art center to educate and expose youth and adults to arts and cultural opportunities.
What it reported doing in 2024
Ccdc provides community development opportunities to enhance the caliber of events made available to a broader diverse audience with a focus on wards 7 & 8 residents through cultural workshops, the art all night event and its annual juneteenth celebration to bring awareness to local heroes making a difference in the community through their service. Many collaborations with top-tier creatives and community organizations work to present experiences such as arts markets, cabaret style performances and dj sets for the local cultural landscape. Soufside creative at the well at oxon run is a commitment of ccdc to enrich the community through art programming. Curating family friendly events that integrate arts, health, wellness and nature for all ages. Ccdc also worked in collaboration with kingsman academy, a public charter school in ward 7 to provide students with internship opportunities in various fields of administration, clerical and building maintenance.
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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 43
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 81.4%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 19th 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: 42.9%; rating input score 43; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -117.4%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.82; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.2%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 55.9% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.1% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 81.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 7 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $320K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $32K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 21 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 43/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.