Cities in Schools Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 731553265
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Lone Grove, OK, USA
- Phone
- 5802211704
- Rating
- 94
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $88,148
- Expenses
- $138,785
- Assets
- $207,251
- Liabilities
- $1,352
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- STACY NEWMAN (PRESIDENT)
- TAYLOR STEELE (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- STACY NEWMAN (PRESIDENT)
- TAYLOR STEELE (VICE PRESIDENT)
- MICHELLE MOORE (MEMBER)
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
Mentoring and teaching students
What it reported doing in 2024
Cities in schools is a community based organization that provides summer day camps and afterschool mentoring and homework assistance to school age children.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 93% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
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: -57.4%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.49; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 50.4%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 28% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -11.4% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $139K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.