Community Resource Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 311364553
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Cincinnati, OH, USA
- Phone
- 5135544944
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Support N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,290,570
- Expenses
- $2,262,980
- Assets
- $464,480
- Liabilities
- $133,390
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
25 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Christie Brown (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Christie Brown (CEO): $100,869 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Serves as a resource center to NonProfits in the Greater Cincinnati area. Provides consulting services, training and donated furniture and other products.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provide furniture, supplies and products to NonProfit 501c(3) agencies.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 84% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 62% for direct work, and 38% for grants.
- 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: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 80
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.5%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 86.5%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $15.28 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 86.7%; rating input score 87; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 75.4%; rating input score 75; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.2%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.21; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.29; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.5%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.4% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85.5% of revenue deployed · 86.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 24 of 24 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $101K · 25 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 33 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 50/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.