Community First

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
871238441
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2023
Forms available
Form 990 2023
Location
College Park, GA, USA
Phone
3166559282
Rating
26
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Civil Rights, Social Action, Advocacy N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$370,000
Expenses
$0
Assets
$0
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Kevin Myles (Founder/President/Consultant)

Highest reported compensation

  • Kiddada Grey (Instructor/Consultant): $80,000 total reported compensation
  • Kevin Myles (Founder/President/Consultant): $80,000 total reported compensation
  • Mark Thompson (Instructor): $40,000 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Community First builds community power by training leaders, strengthening organizations, expanding civic engagement, and developing tools that support justice, equity, healing, and long-term systems change. The organization provides leadership development, advocacy support, youth programming, fatherhood engagement, child welfare reform initiatives, and civic technology education to help communities design and sustain effective solutions to local challenges.

What it reported doing in 2023

Developed a proprietary training and facilitation process for effective community engagement efforts between Child welfare agencies and the families they serve. Worked with communities in Arizona and New Mexico in partnership with AECF to deliver trainings and materials and help facilitate co-design efforts. Developed and delivered resources and trainings to aid Fatherhood empowerment and support programming.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 65
  • Accountability: 25
  • Sustainability: NotEnoughData
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: Limited
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 20%; rating input score 20; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Missing
    • Other executive compensation review process: Missing
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: Limited

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 17.6% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed
  • Governance: 1 of 5 board members independent · 3 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $370K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $80K · 5 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2022 to 2023
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 20/100.
  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.