Communities in Schools of Delaware Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 510343981
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Dover, DE, USA
- Phone
- 3028571297
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Elementary, Secondary Education, K - 12
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,091,682
- Expenses
- $2,125,371
- Assets
- $266,581
- Liabilities
- $61,910
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CARLTON LAMPKINS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- CARLTON LAMPKINS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $93,642 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Communities in schools of Delaware trains and supports site coordinators who work closely with schools to identify the most vulnerable students, and develop and implement a comprehensive, targeted, and customized plan to get them back on track.these interventions include brokering partners and programs into school. Our approach includes: non-academic assistance: connecting young people with a host of services - healthcare, housing, safety, nutrition - resulting in students more prepared to learn.one-to-one mentoring: instilling the confidence to succeed, the belief that education creates opportunity, and setting the expectation for success.tutoring and academic support: increasing academic performance and building confidence.family assistance & parent engagement: ensuring children have a supportive home life, and that parents have access to the services they need.out-of-school enrichment & service learning: strengthening the resiliency of children to succeed in life.
What it reported doing in 2024
Communities in schools of Delaware brokers and develops mentoring/tutoring, after-school programs, individual interventions, and family assistance.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 72% 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.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 84.6%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.29 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 27; 27th 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: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.6%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.13; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.23; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.4%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.5% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86% of revenue deployed · 84.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $94K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2009 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 27/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 40/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.