Early Childhood Options of University Circle Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 341585394
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2020
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020
- Location
- Beachwood, OH, USA
- Phone
- 2164645300
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Child Day Care
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,937,438
- Expenses
- $2,005,803
- Assets
- $271,276
- Liabilities
- $195,535
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GLORIA BLEVINS (CEO)
- GABRIELLE KELLY (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- GLORIA BLEVINS (CEO): $70,946 total reported compensation
- AVA LUCKY (COO): $66,462 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Providing for the health and well-being of children through high quality culturally responsible direct care, teaching, services, community education and advocacy.
What it reported doing in 2020
Care for kids program: provides quality technical assistance visits to family child care providers and child developmental trainings.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 99% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 72% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Accountability: 83
- Sustainability: 18
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.2%; rating input score 99
- Program expense ratio: 95.9%; rating input score 96
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 71.4%; rating input score 71; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.5%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.14; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.72; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.9%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4.8% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -12.2% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 99.2% of revenue deployed · 95.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 7 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $71K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2015 to 2020
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 52/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.