Community Alliance for Teen Safety

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
020490481
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2023
Forms available
Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2022
Location
Derry, NH, USA
Phone
6035055115
Rating
68
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Safety Education

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$256,591
Expenses
$103,516
Assets
$250,682
Liabilities
$1,677

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Sue Centner (Executive Director)
  • Frank Leblanc (President)

Highest reported compensation

  • Sue Centner (Executive Director): $38,152 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To promote safe habits for youth by increasing their awareness of high-risk behaviors and encouraging healthy choices and fostering community alliances.

What it reported doing in 2023

We continue to have a positive impact on the attitudes of youth about risk taking while driving. Highway safety efforts have been a primary focus of our agency since its inception in 1996. These efforts are supported by on-going funding from the state office of highway safety. Another primary focus area is substance misuse prevention and youth mental health and wellness. We continue to support the semiannual prescription drug take back days hosted by the Derry, NH police department. Our collaboration with Derry's Community Access media to create and share important health, wellness and safety messaging continues with a focus on improving the health and safety of youth within the greater Derry community by including youth voices. Surveying the community to gain insight into the public health and safety priorities for youth and families is on-going. Collaboration with and support for one of the 13 public health networks serving 10 communities in southern NH allows for expanded outreach to the populations we both serve. Supporting the Derry Cooperative School District (K-8) and Pinkerton Academy, a public/private school of over 3,200 students (grades 9-12), by offering programs and opportunities that educate, engage and empower youth has been a priority since CATS was founded in 1996 and continues to this day. The Community Alliance for Teen Safety has effectively served as a central hub connecting the various spokes of the community wheel. Outreach to the community and in-reach to CATS has been simultaneous and dynamic, establishing a prototype for looking at solving community issues going forward.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 89% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 47
  • Transparency & Controls: 86
  • Accountability: 84
  • Sustainability: 70
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 34%; rating input score 34
  • Program expense ratio: 84.3%; rating input score 84
  • Fundraising efficiency: $0.08 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 18th 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: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
    • 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: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 59.7%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.42; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 36.9%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -33.9% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 29.2% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 34% of revenue deployed · 84.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $87K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $38K · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 23 of 24 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2020 to 2023
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 34/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 3/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 50/100.