Design Fc Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 873617461
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9175797694
- Rating
- 63
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $378,091
- Expenses
- $300,539
- Assets
- $122,408
- Liabilities
- $9,052
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- OMRI GAL (BOARD PRESIDENT/EXECUTIVE)
Highest reported compensation
- OLIVER STEINGLASS (CHIEF PROGRAM OFFICER): $91,839 total reported compensation
- OMRI GAL (BOARD PRESIDENT/EXECUTIVE): $82,958 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Design fc teaches youth in under-resourced communities the core elements of creative thinking, self expression, and storytelling through design. Our goal is to provide students with the tools, resources, and opportunities they need to express themselves and pursue their creative dreams.
What it reported doing in 2025
The design fc academy is a specialized program that provides students who have been with the program for 3+ years with the life changing resources, access, exposure to pursue their creative dreams. By leveraging some of the biggest names in sport, design, fashion, and media, we give our academy students unparalleled access to the creative careers they are interestedin exploring.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 66% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 31
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 26.3%; rating input score 26
- Program expense ratio: 33.1%; rating input score 33
- Fundraising efficiency: $13.76 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 20.5%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.41; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 58.2%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 46.5% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 34.8% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 26.3% of revenue deployed · 33.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $100K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $92K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 26/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 33/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 46/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.