Community Crime Patrol
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 311308004
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Columbus, OH, USA
- Phone
- 6142914262
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Neighborhood, Block Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $493,037
- Expenses
- $504,589
- Assets
- $79,335
- Liabilities
- $45,048
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ELLEN MOORE GRIFFIN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- TIMOTHY MYERS (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- KEVIN R WIDMER (ASSISTANT DIRECTOR): $56,084 total reported compensation
- ELLEN MOORE GRIFFIN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $44,640 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 detect and deter crime through the deployment of citizen patrollers in several neighborhoods in the city of columbus, Ohio.
What it reported doing in 2024
Patrolling six neighborhoods in the city of columbus by uniformed, non-police personnel to deter and detect crime, as well as assisting local police. Patrollers worked a total of 10,188 hours in the following areas: university district, franklinton, merion village, german village, northland/north linden, east main street special improvement district and the city of columbus' recreation and parks dept. Patrollers reported 16 significant incidents, resulting in arrest, summons, ticket issued, written report or squad run, they assisted just over 1,100 residents in need of directions, help with car trouble, or information requests, just under 75 reports of code violations, such as unsecured vacant structures or a junk car parked in a yard, were submitted to the city of columbus' code enforcement department. Two persons requested and were granted patrol escorts to ensure their safe arrival at their final destination. Finally, just over 600 repair requests were submitted to the city of columbus related to problems such as burned-out street lights, water leaks, and missing street signs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 93% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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 - 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 77
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.2%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 83.2%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: -2.3%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.16; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.57; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 20%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85.2% of revenue deployed · 83.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $420K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $56K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 38 of 39 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.