Destination Imagination of New York Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
030428322
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Croton on Hudson, NY, USA
Rating
59
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$70,766
Expenses
$65,002
Assets
$80,110
Liabilities
$331

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

16 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Jon Brennan (Co-chair - Board of Trustees and Western Regional Director)
  • Dawn DiCicco (Co-chair - Board of Trustees)
  • Joshua Diamond (Affiliate 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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Educational program teaching creativity teamwork & critical thinking

What it reported doing in 2024

Organize tournaments where student teams present solutions to STEAM challenges without adult assistance; teaching teamwork creativity & critical thinking. Student participants was 329 for fiscal year 2024

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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 43
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 48
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 42.6%; rating input score 43
  • Program expense ratio: 44.4%; rating input score 44

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 8.1%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.23; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 8.5%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -6.6% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 11.4% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -2.3% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 42.6% of revenue deployed · 44.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $29K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 16 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 43/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 44/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.