Crossing Thresholds Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 263924756
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Wilton, CT, USA
- Phone
- 9146108492
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,489,933
- Expenses
- $1,397,158
- Assets
- $842,325
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- CHARLES CARTER VIA (EXECUTIVE OF): $109,231 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Since our incorporation in 2008, our work has been the following - we identify, empower, and employ local community leaders who have a mission to transform the lives of children in the kibera slum of nairobi, kenya. More specifically, we build schools where children can access nutrition, learning, health care, music, and dance. To support our school-building projects, we lead volunteer trips to stretch the boundaries of cross-cultural learning and service. These trips are designed both to encourage global citizenship and to build long-term support for our programs/projects.
What it reported doing in 2024
Crossing thresholds has not only built but covers the operating expenses for 5 primary schools in the kibera slum. Operating expenses include feeding, teacher salaries, support staff, and a variety of extracurricular programs (music, dance, chess, computer literacy). Here is an overview of our five primary schools: 1) fafu-facing the future, which feeds and educates 512 students, 2)garden of hope which feeds and educates 437 students, 3)drug fighters orphanage/primary school which feeds and educates 330 students and serves as a permanent residence for 50 orphans, 4)center of hope which feeds and educates 209 students, 5) community pillars, which feeds and educates 283 students. In 2024 we continued the construction of our newest primary school, center of hope. Across all of our schools, we employed 119 kenyan teachers, strenghtend our tech program, and celebrated our award-winning music and programs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.3%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 88.5%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $18.86 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 57; 57th 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: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.2%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.6; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.8%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.3% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 17.2% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.6% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.3% of revenue deployed · 88.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $109K · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 19 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 57/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 44/100.