Communities in Schools of Richmond Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 541799922
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Richmond, VA, USA
- Phone
- 8043581247
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Delinquency Prevention
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,001,916
- Expenses
- $4,997,737
- Assets
- $5,638,423
- Liabilities
- $576,427
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
21 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- HAROLD FITRER (PRESIDENT AND CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- HAROLD FITRER (PRESIDENT AND CEO): $160,947 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 champion the connection of needed community resources with schools to help young people successfully learn, stay in school and prepare for life.
What it reported doing in 2024
Communities in schools surrounds students with a community of support empowering them to stay in school and succeed in life. Communities in schools in richmond brings the integrated student support model to schools by doing the following:-partners with school districts to identify where cis can have the greatest impact-conducts an assessment at the school level to determine annual needs-hires, trains and assigns a site coordinator to a school-partners with the school districts, local agencies, businesses and foundations to garner support for the organization and its work-mobilizes community resources to address academic and nonacademic barriers-evaluates work at all levels to ensure progress is made and goals are met with support from partners and volunteers, cis offers three tiers of support to the schools, families, and individual students: tier 1 - prevention and enrichment for whole schoolstier 2 - collaborative group work for students with common needstier 3 - one-to-one intervention
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.
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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.9%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 86.6%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $19.33 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 0.1%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.13; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.2%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.1% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.9% of revenue deployed · 86.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $161K · 21 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 58/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 58/100.