Charleston Community Research to Action Board

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
461521161
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
Location
North Charleston, SC, USA
Phone
8438105272
Rating
49
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Public Health Program (Includes General Health and Wellness Promotion Services)

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$169,773
Expenses
$118,661
Assets
$119,451
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Gerard Mikell (Chair)
  • Herbert Maybank (Vice-Chair)
  • Chloe Stuber (Treasurer)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Charleston Community Research to Action Board (CCRAB) promotes safe, healthy, and just neighborhoods within environmental justice communities in the Lowcountry through community-led research and citizen science. CCRAB's core tenets are environmental justice, community-based participatory research, and citizen science. CCRAB facilitates university-community partnerships to investigate environmental and public health concerns identified by residents including but not limited to: air quality, soil quality, water quality, and flooding and climate change impacts.

What it reported doing in 2024

Air Quality Monitoring: 1) Deployed additional PurpleAir monitors for resident-led air quality screening. 2) Coordinated quarterly meetings of Charleston Community Air Monitoring Network, a collaboration between entities monitoring air quality to support data sharing and transparency. 3) Maintained a network of residential screening monitors (PurpleAir) and two community high grade monitors to collect and report levels of particulate matter 2.5. 4) Communicated findings of research to residents and community stakeholders.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 5
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 73
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 4.5%; rating input score 5
  • Program expense ratio: 6.4%; rating input score 6

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 30.1%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.01; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -165.9% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 52.6% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 54.4% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 4.5% of revenue deployed · 6.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $8K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
  • 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 5/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 6/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.