Ella Austin Community Center

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
741166908
IRS 990 coverage
2014–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2023
Location
San Antonio, TX, USA
Phone
7203852090
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$647,045
Expenses
$1,116,110
Assets
$5,449
Liabilities
$53,719

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • VICTOR HUGO ZUNIGA (Vice President)
  • STEWART L BLANTON (President)

People named in this filing

  • BEVERLY WATTS-DAVIS (EMERITUS)
  • VICTOR HUGO ZUNIGA (Vice President)
  • STEWART L BLANTON (President)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To empower individuals and families across the life span by providing multiple, integrated services that meet the needs of san antonio's neighborhood and beyond.

What it reported doing in 2024

Early child development program. The ella austin community early child development department is a state licnesed facility since 1985 through the Texas department of child and protective service. The program has an extensive track record for providing strengths-based services to low income children and families living in the eastside (easatpoint) of san antonio, and since 2012 children in federally desingated eastside promise neighborhood and choice footprints. The agency's comprehensive approach to child and parent training is based on treating trusting relationships with families to provide them with the necessary tools and skills to support their children's development.the pre-k engages children in a rich curriculum that natures their intellectual, social and emotional development. Ella austin community cneter has been providing early child development services to the eastside communiyt since 1978 and paretning training since 2001. The program had contracts with the city of san antonio and united way. This program served 115 children in the early head start program. Benefts of early childhood education at the national level, head start is the longest-running national school readiness program designed to help the under-privilege children engagemnt for low-income children and families. Ella austin community cneter provides options and opportunties for students (birth to 3rd grade) and their parents through an innovative early childhood education system that promotes quality, consistency and connection at every level critical junction in a child's life.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 81
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 82
  • Sustainability: 11
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 75%; rating input score 75
  • 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: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -72.5%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 9.86; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -5.6% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -6.2% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -10.5% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 75% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $837K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 0/100.