Dunbar Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 150533563
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Syracuse, NY, USA
- Phone
- 3157603155
- Rating
- 61
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $863,200
- Expenses
- $575,438
- Assets
- $1,072,492
- Liabilities
- $258,722
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- WILLIAM SIMMONS (PRESIDENT)
- ELIZABETH PAGE (VICE PRESIDENT)
- ANDRE L HARPER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- ANDRE L HARPER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $80,000 total reported compensation
- AISHA HUNTLEY (BOARD MEMBER): $5,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Dunbar facilitates 3 main areas of programming: senior services and youth/family services. We provide wrap around services for community members that include but are not limited to: case management, linkage and navigation, academic support, social and emotional support, advocacy, transportation, and job skills.
What it reported doing in 2024
Youth/family services: provided academic, recreational, social emotional, and enrichment activities and support for school-aged children in afterschool and summer program settings. The youth afterschool and summer program aims to improve student attendance in both school and dunbar's afterschool program; to improve emotional self-management skills; to develop students' appreciation for their cultural heritage and the culture of others; and to improve relationship building and conflict resolution skills. We continue to impact the academic success of our youth by providing tutoring and help with homework and classwork. Syracuse university interns also meet with our youth. We track student attendance and follow up with families when their child misses a program session. Our youth receive positive reinforcement of social skills through lessons and activities. Our programs expose youth to physical activities such as boxing, tennis, pickleball and more.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 61% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 34
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 65
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 32%; rating input score 32
- Program expense ratio: 48%; rating input score 48
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 33.3%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.86; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.24; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14.8%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.8% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.8% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 32% of revenue deployed · 48% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 11 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $276K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $80K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 32/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 48/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.