Coop Center for Creativity Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 272395391
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2013
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2013, Form 990-N 2010
- Location
- New Haven, CT, USA
- Phone
- 2034352708
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $61,020
- Expenses
- $78,609
- Assets
- $21,689
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2013. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- HELEN KAUDER (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- HELEN KAUDER (PRESIDENT)
- DOLORES GARCIA-BLOCKER (DIRECTOR)
- JOHN FISHER (DIRECTOR)
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 2013. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Coop center for creativity's mission is to help open up the new coop facility for the benefit of the new haven community, while also enabling coop students, teachers and families to expand their participation in the civic, business and cultural life of new haven, beyond what is possible during the school day alone. It will recruit professional designers, artists and ensembles to develop new work to be presented at coop, where young people - the next generation creative workforce - can take a vital role in the process.
What it reported doing in 2013
Ccc organizes a biannual "college lift off weekend," a forum which brings together professional and aspiring writers and college writing majors with juniors and seniors in the new haven public schools. The fall event focuses on seniors in the midst of the application process; the spring is for juniors to help them launch their personal statements. Students receive writing tips, encouragement, coaching and often leave the program with a completed essay. The celantano sentinel is a biannual newspaper produced at the celantano museum school. Students in grades 2-7 meet afterschool to learn to write news stories and put together a paper mentored by professional journalists and students from yale's college publications. A unique aspect of the sentinel is that mentoring is also provided by high school students from coop high school. Ccc trains the coop high students to serve as "big brother/big sister" through another of its programs, the "new haven summer journalism institute." ccc maintains a series of adjacent storefronts in downtown new haven, which serve as spaces for youth mentoring, apprenticeships and artists in residence. In november 2011, we hosted publication studio, a renowned storefront book publisher. Their founders offered free lectures, demonstrations, book-binding workshops for students at coop high school and for the larger community. Other 2011-2012 artists in residence were "the sustainable furniture initiative", a furniture recycling workshop. The writer's hub is a weekly afterschool workshop for coop hs students to receive one on one tutoring to improve their writing skills. Students focus on different writing genres (science, fiction, poetry, etc.) in a nurturing, safe environment. Each semester culminates in a public reading attended by peers and parents.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 74% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 98
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 21
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 96.3%; rating input score 96
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -28.8%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.28; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 96.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $76K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.