Charlottesville Community Design
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 204851820
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2011
- Forms available
- Form 990 2009, Form 990-EZ 2011
- Location
- Charlottesville, VA, USA
- Rating
- 54
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Environmental Quality, Protection, and Beautification N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $-20,062
- Expenses
- $434
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2011. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2011. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization's mission is to bring together citizens and design resources to create an equitable, sustainable and beautiful community; to visualize and shape the future of charlottesville; to improve the health, sustainability, equity and vitality of the c'ville region by encouraging throughtful planning and design of the built environment.
What it reported doing in 2011
Exempt purposes include design services, providing energy audits to low income households, and several education initiatives.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 42
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 4
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 7.9%; rating input score 8
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -102.2%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -132.4% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -100% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 7.9% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $434 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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 8/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.