College and Career Plaza
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 843961213
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Santa Fe, NM, USA
- Phone
- 5059199445
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Vocational Counseling
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $446,450
- Expenses
- $364,133
- Assets
- $384,195
- Liabilities
- $40,024
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JUDY REINHARTZ (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ALLIYAH NOOR (EXECUTIVE DI): $98,747 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 provide career and college mentoring and strategic guidance to high school students in northern New Mexico. Vision: college and career plaza (ccp), partnering with families and the community, ensures that every high school student in northern New Mexico transitions with a plan for the future. Ccp employs full time, bilingual guidance and mentoring staff who support hundreds of students and their families at santa fe high, capital high school, the santa fe indian school and monte de sol charter school. The ccp board of directors and executive director are engaging in community outreach and capacity building to integrate a sustainable organizational structure that will provide for expansion into additional high schools across the state while maintaining quality and relevant programming.
What it reported doing in 2024
Provided career coaching, mentoring, technical education, college guidance and financial literacy to students at four santa fe high schools. Served students with 1:1 counseling (virtual and direct), virtual classroom presentations, career days and panels, weekly workshops and other events. Supported students with college selection and applications, scholarship applications, undocumented student guidance, financial aid (fafsa)application, act/sat support, college visits and jobs / internships. For the 2024-2025 school year, the ccp team facilitated 1,622 in-person appointments, provided personalized 1:1 guidance to 380 youth, and reached 5,634 students through college and career events across our partner schools.
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.
- 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: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.8%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 77.7%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.55 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 22nd 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: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- 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: 18.4%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.06; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 27.1%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 27.5% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 20.9% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 33% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 63.8% of revenue deployed · 77.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $283K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $99K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 25 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 32/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.