Digital Opportunity Trust-USA Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 204993061
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2011
- Forms available
- Form 990 2011
- Location
- Picayune, MS, USA
- Phone
- 6017981172
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Adult, Continuing Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,721,757
- Expenses
- $5,676,992
- Assets
- $511,484
- Liabilities
- $205,723
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2011. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2011. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Bringing the vision of 21st century schools to reality, digital opportunity trust (dot) USA is the driving force bringing the innovative teachup! Program model to Mississippi and Louisiana public schools affected by hurricane katrina. Through teachup!, dot USA helps teachers, students, schools, and communities multiply learning with technology.
What it reported doing in 2011
Services are provided for ten to twelve month periods providing interns who integrate with teachers in ms and la school districts to educate them in the use of application of information and communications technology.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 85% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 59th 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: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 21st 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: 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: 0.8%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.09; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.4; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.7%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 24.4% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 35.2% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 8 of 9 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $134K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 23 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2010 to 2011
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 43/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 37/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.