Cross Cultural Community Services
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 900580603
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Portland, ME, USA
- Phone
- 2072006261
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Health Program (Includes General Health and Wellness Promotion Services)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,225,233
- Expenses
- $852,785
- Assets
- $549,025
- Liabilities
- $79,567
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jennifer Sporzynski (President)
- Ryan Gorneau (Vice President)
- Deqa Dhalac (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Abeir Ibrahim (CFO): $113,675 total reported compensation
- Regina Phillips (COO): $103,434 total reported compensation
- Deqa Dhalac (CEO): $87,187 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
EDI training and health equity, education and system change.
What it reported doing in 2024
Health Equity, Education and System Change - facilitated focus groups to gather insights and feedback from diverse community members. These focus groups were instrumental in identifying the unique challenges faced by different groups, allowing tailored support services to better meet the needs of the community. Expanded services to include multilingual case management for immigrant and black bipoc communities, ensuring invididuals from various linguistic backgrounds could access and benefit from the support provided. Hosted in-person black history month health & wellness fair, further enhancing community engagement. The Organization was approved for grants to address healthy equity with older persons and continued to work on the oral health disparities among adults & children in bipoc community, reflecting its ongoing efforts to address critical health issues within these groups. Through these initiatives, the Organization demonstrated a steadfast commitment to fostering a diverse and inclusive community, proving comprehensive and accessible services to meet the needs of its members.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 86
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 50.5%; rating input score 51
- Program expense ratio: 72.6%; rating input score 73
- Fundraising efficiency: $117.94 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
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: 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 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 30.4%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.64; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 35.7%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 89.8% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 67.9% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 82.5% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 50.5% of revenue deployed · 72.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $619K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $114K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- 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: Mission deployment rate scored 51/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 37/100.