Cornerstone Community Development Corporation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
352575279
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Avondale, AZ, USA
Phone
6238773220
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Services N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$150,305
Expenses
$137,590
Assets
$60,631
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Jason Brown (CEO/President)

People named in this filing

  • Richard Brown (Trustee)
  • Daniel Arce (Treasurer)
  • David Henderson (Secretary)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To serve underprivileged and high risk youth and their parents, offer a broad range of community education opportunities and literacy youth programs, provide emergency food and clothing, and serve community seniors and shut-ins as well as the unhoused.

What it reported doing in 2025

Community Outreach: Our back to school outreach served approx 700 students in 2025 and included donations of backpacks and school supplies received from various donors which were all given out to every student, and includes about 30 volunteers giving approx 150 hours of service time. Our Christmas outreach served approx 500 people in 2025 and included large donations of toys from private individuals and businesses to give to all the children in attendance along with hamburger meals, and approx 45 volunteers donating 250 hours of time for this event. Other outreach programs are movie nights and video gaming nights (approx 30 attend at each). We also offer our community center building to host town hall meetings with our city. Most outreach supplies and donated and given directly to the community during the events.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 56% for direct work, and 44% for grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 58
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 51
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 55.7%; rating input score 56
  • Program expense ratio: 60.9%; rating input score 61

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 8.5%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.44; rating input score 35; 35th 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 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 41.7% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 22.9% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -8% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 55.7% of revenue deployed · 60.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $84K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 56/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.