Dome Project Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 133060257
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2017
- Forms available
- Form 990 2017
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2127241780
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $191,230
- Expenses
- $219,378
- Assets
- $42,344
- Liabilities
- $66,664
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KELLY WILLIAMS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- KELLY WILLIAMS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $40,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Since its fouding in 1973, the mission of
What it reported doing in 2017
The bridge to success program is an extraordinarily sccessful and cost-effective effort that for over 25 yrs has kept thousands of young offenders from repeat criminal activity and prevented thousands of at-risk youths from ever becoming involved in crime. The program serves as a unifying source of support to youngsters through counseling, court advocacy, supervision, and assistance with education, vocational, mentl health, housing, and substance abuse placement. The program serves approximately 100 youths each year and is widely respected by all sectors of the criminal justice system. It is the goal of the organization to provide the youngsters with intensive therapeutic individual and group counsling so that they avoid criminal activity or being re-arrested and become productive members of society.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 63% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 65
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 14
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -14.7%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.19; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.57; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 18.2%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -22.3% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.8% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -9% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $219K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $40K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 19 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2009 to 2017
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Document-retention policy not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.