Empowering Communities-helping Ourselves
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 421532718
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Montgomery, AL, USA
- Rating
- 56
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Parent/Teacher Group
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $84,032
- Expenses
- $77,206
- Assets
- $33,730
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
People named in this filing
- Deloris Sweeney (Board Member)
- Jon Dow (Board Member)
- Doris Caldwell (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
ECHO offers a comprehensive range of services in Montgomery Alabama. These include afterschool programs summer camps mentoring initiatives for both boys and girls as well as engaging activities like performing arts cooking classes and fitness programs benefiting hundreds of children. Additionally ECHO contributes to the community by providing snacks meals and food boxes to children families and senior citizens year-round. The organization also fosters a sense of community through events such as Fall Festivals Christmas parties Thanksgiving dinners and Black History programs.
What it reported doing in 2024
After school program includes homework assistance organized games guest speakers participation in gardening projects physical activities in gym and baseball field field trips to museums Eat South Garden performing arts in dancing singing puppeteering. Performances at community events. Fall Festivals Christmas programs etc. Mentoring program during after school program for boys and girls. Special workshops with guest speakers.
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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. 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: 37
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 35.7%; rating input score 36
- Program expense ratio: 38.8%; rating input score 39
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.1%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.44; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -120.6% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 41.7% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 35.7% of revenue deployed · 38.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $30K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 36/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 39/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.