Communities in Schools of the Dallas Regioninc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 752044117
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Dallas, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2148270955
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $8,176,014
- Expenses
- $10,378,463
- Assets
- $3,722,218
- Liabilities
- $1,752,539
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ADAM POWELL-thru 125 (President & CEO)
- DR SUMMER ROSE-FROM 125 (President & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- ADAM POWELL-thru 125 (President & CEO): $247,194 total reported compensation
- KRISTIN KELLEY-thru 225 (CHIEF ADV. OFFICER): $158,975 total reported compensation
- DR SUMMER ROSE-FROM 125 (President & CEO): $146,996 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 help students at risk of failure stay in school, achieve academically and graduate, and to become productive and contributing members of our communities.
What it reported doing in 2024
CISDR provides school based services to school aged children at risk of academic/social failure. Services ensure prevention and intervention strategies to reduce student drop-out rates and reinforce community involvement in that success. In the fiscal year 2024-2025, CISDR provided one-on-one case management services (including direct academic, intervention, and social guidance) to 63,987 unduplicated children and youth across 101 campuses in 11 Independent School Districts and charter networks.
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
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: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 12
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.1%; rating input score 99
- Program expense ratio: 78.1%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.92 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: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- 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: 9 of 9 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: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -26.9%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.36; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.47; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.7%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.7% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.3% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 99.1% of revenue deployed · 78.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $8.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $247K · 20 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 31/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.