Distance Learning Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 232046518
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Phone
- 2672382900
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Medical Disciplines Research
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $127,253
- Expenses
- $132,595
- Assets
- $3,582
- Liabilities
- $53,551
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
People named in this filing
- RAY ANDERSON (BOARD MEMBER)
- ANGELA P ROBINSON ESQ (CHRMAN/PRES)
- SHANNIN LEWIS (BOARD MEMBER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Distance learning center (dlc) was incorporated in 1990 as a 501 c 3 non-profit corporation to spearhead the stemprep project, a vehicle for producing the next generation of minority researchers in science, technology, engineering, math (stem) and medicine. From the beginning, the dlc designated its target population as being those minority groups who will become the emerging majority in the u.s. By 2050, but who at present are underrepresented in stem disciplines: african-americans, mexican-americans, native americans, native hawaiians and mainland puerto ricans. The original mission of the dlc was to develop innovative training concepts, implement comprehensive programs, and to fund raise to support programs for these underrepresented minority groups. The backbone of the dlc has been its pool of volunteers who have given of their time to create a new training paradigm based on an early start model, a longitudinal training continuum and a multi-institutional mentorship approach
What it reported doing in 2025
I. The monetary contributions to the distance learning center (dlc) allowed dlc to support the training activities of the biomedical trainees during the summer as follows: the dlc provides a 10-year internship continuum to minority stem students in order to significantly increase the number of researchers. Accepted trainees begin the 10-year continuum in the summer after the 7th grade. The interns/students work, live and learn at various universities in the us and canada, and at various governmental agencies such as us government laboratories, the nih and various pharmaceutical firms.
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
SUPPORTED - 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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 21
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.1%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 85.5%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.2%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.03; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 14.95; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -20.2% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -13.3% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -19.8% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 89.1% of revenue deployed · 85.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $113K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 17 of 17 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 0/100.