Five Ducks Foundation Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
881309587
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
Location
Danbury, CT, USA
Rating
47
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Youth Community Service Clubs

Reported finances

Revenue
$117,077
Expenses
$121,043
Assets
$2,104
Liabilities
$6,063

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • AMBER ALESSANDRO (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • AMBER ALESSANDRO (PRESIDENT)
  • KERRON SEMPER (DIRECTOR)
  • ANGELO VELEZ (DIRECTOR)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Five Ducks Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving and enriching the lives of our community through cultural diversity and youth development in CT. We strive to create a welcoming and inclusive culture that supports and empowers young people to reach their full potential. Our goal is to foster a sense of belonging and pride in our diverse community and to inspire future leaders to take an active role in creating a better world for all.

What it reported doing in 2025

Brain Boost Summer Learning is an academic enrichment program designed to help students stay engaged in learning during the summer and reduce summer learning loss. The program provides activities focused on reading math writing STEM and critical thinking through interactive and hands-on lessons. Students participate in educational games creative projects and small-group instruction that make learning enjoyable and engaging. Brain Boost Summer Learning helps students strengthen academic skills while building confidence and maintaining a positive attitude toward learning.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 70% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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. 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: 12
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 15
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 12%; rating input score 12
  • Program expense ratio: 11.6%; rating input score 12

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -3.4%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.02; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 2.88; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 3.8%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 12% of revenue deployed · 11.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $14K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 12/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 12/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 22/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.