Communitynashville
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 203377194
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2017
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2017
- Location
- Nashville, TN, USA
- Phone
- 6153271755
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Intergroup, Race Relations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $70,892
- Expenses
- $55,679
- Assets
- $74,770
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BOB FARICY (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- AVI POSTER (BOARD MEMBER)
- BOB FARICY (PRESIDENT)
- KENYA NELSON STEVENS (TREASURER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To fight bias, bigotry and racism by promoting understanding and respect among all races, religions, and cultures through advocation and education.
What it reported doing in 2017
Since 1972, community nashville (formerly nccj) has been dedicated to building a middle Tennessee community that does not tolerate bias, bigotry, or racism. We are best known for our barrier breaking youth diversity leadership programs called building bridges. Community nashville also advocates for and raises awareness of issues of bias, bigotry and racism and threats to human rights in the region.building bridges: funding would support community nashville's building bridges programs, offering diversity education for young adults. Administered through a partnership with the oasis center, building bridges consists primarily of multi-day residential camps ranging from two to five days, including camp anytown conducted each summer. The camps and programs educate youth about the root causes of prejudice, inspiring them to face their own feelings and opinions while learning to respect and understand others. Building bridges also includes the youth advisory council, a year-long group of young adults who help plan and implement the camps as well as work with other organizations and events, like the annual martin luther king day celebration.results: during 2017 year, more than 150 youth were served through building bridges camps, youth advisory outreach and cultural identity groups. In the spring, building bridges hosted 25 college students from across nine institutions for a 3-day retreat that culminated in the creation of a city-wide network of influence, resources and volunteers. Ourtown was again completed in june, with more than 50 campers and fall camp was focused on youth from ancillary programs at oasis center.the building bridges program director, tasha fletcher, continued to conduct cultural competency training for administrators, providing experiential activities and dialogues regarding racism, privilege, identity and being an ally.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 68
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.5%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 89.8%; rating input score 90
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 21.5%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.34; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -37.1% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -12.8% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 31.6% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 70.5% of revenue deployed · 89.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $50K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2015 to 2017
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.