College and Career Access Center of Jackson
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 271441054
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Jackson, MI, USA
- Phone
- 5179900673
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $726,610
- Expenses
- $632,857
- Assets
- $745,177
- Liabilities
- $158,288
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- NANCY PETERS-LEWIS (EXECUTIVE DI): $91,116 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Navigating all jackson county residents to productive careers through the pursuit of appropriate career training or post-secondary training.
What it reported doing in 2024
In its 17th year of operation and 12th year partnering with all 13 jackson county school districts, the ccac provided comprehensive college and career advising to students and adults county-wide. Ccac met with 1,111 high school seniors - 88% of the graduating class - providing 876 college and 235 career consults, and serviced an additional 745 clients at the center. The organization hosted 51 classroom workshops and 19 virtual workshops, provided over 1,280 eight graders with college and career curriculum and tours through the kids2college/pathways2professional skilled trades initiative, and engaged 1,012 juniors in local circuit collge tours. All 13 districts hosted decision day events celebrating 1,267 seniors' postsecondary plans, supported by ccac mini-grants. Community engagement included stem programming with over 250 elementary students, advising partnerships with shelters and local agencies, and new job-shadowing opportunities to add to our over 30 business and college partners with henry ford health, emergent health partners, and the jackson county prosecutor's office. Ccac continued advocacy on workforce development and college affordability, maintained county-level data dashboards, and supported alumni re-engagement initiatives.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 61% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76.6%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 87.1%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.96 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 34; 34th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 12.9%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.18; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14.4%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.9% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 76.6% of revenue deployed · 87.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $551K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $91K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 34/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.