Discovery Team Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 831638712
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Apopka, FL, USA
- Phone
- 4076925471
- Rating
- 42
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $528,863
- Expenses
- $0
- Assets
- $23,000
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Tequesta Dukes (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Tadra Thurmond (Director): $34,850 total reported compensation
- Tequesta Dukes (President): $29,950 total reported compensation
- Byron Roberts (Director): $1,275 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organizations mission is to provide vocational rehabilitation and pre-employment transition services that support individuals with disabilities in developing workplace readiness employment skills and pathways to meaningful community-based employment through contracted programs with the Florida Department of Education Division of Vocational Rehabilitation.
What it reported doing in 2024
During the tax year the organization demonstrated a strong commitment to its mission by reinvesting more than fifty percent of its program service revenue directly into program delivery. Funds were primarily allocated to student stipends and compensation for instructional and program staff ensuring participants received meaningful financial support and high-quality educational and vocational services. This investment strengthened program outcomes supported student engagement and enhanced the organizations capacity to deliver effective vocational rehabilitation and pre-employment transition services.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 100% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 34
- Transparency & Controls: 63
- Accountability: 32
- Sustainability: 11
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 61.6%; rating input score 62
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 70%; rating input score 70; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 5th 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: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 145.2% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 148.5% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 61.6% of revenue deployed
- Governance: 0 of 3 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $356K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $35K · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 36 of 40 current checks pass · 4 findings to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 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.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX CompCurrentOfficersDirectors column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX OtherSalariesAndWages column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Series program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.