Community Hope of Delaware Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
200954315
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2015
Forms available
Form 990 2015
Location
Newark, DE, USA
Phone
3022949094
Rating
75
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Fund Raising and Fund Distribution

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$844,205
Expenses
$895,497
Assets
$211,483
Liabilities
$78,709

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2015. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JERRY SUMMERS (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • JOHN CAPELLO (DIRECTOR/MAN): $57,079 total reported compensation
  • JERRY SUMMERS (PRESIDENT): $16,154 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2015. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Provide for youth sports and mentoring, assist and restore families and persons in crisis, sponsor positive speakers and entertainment, and provide character-building education and training programs for youth and adults.

What it reported doing in 2015

- provide and maintain recreational facilities for kids ages 5 to 15. In 2008, installed and maintained baseball and soccer fields on licensed lands, used by more than 500 children in community leagues. Recently, these fields are more often used by a charter school and the administration and maintenance have been assumed by the landlord. - provide a discount thrift sales facility to train and employ disadvantaged, low income, physically handicapped, the formerly incarcerated, abused women, single mothers and the elderly. - donate food, clothing, bedding and furniture to several organizations serving homeless groups from philadelphia to baltimore. - provide jobs training for 15-20 autistic youth weekly in a partnership with the brennen school for autism and Delaware christina school district. - provide character-building events and seminars for youth and adults. - through community hope/newark performing arts, provide group instrument training for low income children; instructors hired through university of Delaware. - in 2010, opened raising hope childcare center, Delaware licensed pre- school for low-income families, ages 18 mos to 5 years.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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 - 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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 86
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 61
  • Sustainability: 21
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 90.9%; rating input score 91
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 60%; rating input score 60; 11th 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: -6.1%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.24; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.37; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 8.2%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -14.4% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -5.8% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -10.9% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 90.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 3 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $814K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $57K · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2011 to 2015
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 43/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.