Gene Slay's Boys' Club of St Louis Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 430653261
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- St Louis, MO, USA
- Phone
- 3146559007
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Boys Clubs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,133,944
- Expenses
- $2,811,092
- Assets
- $5,340,255
- Liabilities
- $567,419
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- EDWARD FINKELSTEIN (EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT)
- ANTHONY GORDON (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JOMO CASTRO (VICE PRESIDENT)
- ROBERT PURICELLI (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- ROBERT PURICELLI (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $122,887 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of gene slay's boys' club of st. Louis, inc. Is to empower girls and boys in the st. Louis metropolitan area, especially those who need us most, to realize their physical, intellectual, and emotional potential.
What it reported doing in 2024
Extended learning - gene slay's girls & boys club's program offers a well-rounded curriculum in after-school and summer camp programming that allows members to strengthen, sustain, and acquire academic skills that help close the learning gap experienced by 70% of urban youth in the city of st. Louis that gsgbc serves. Programs feature a variety of academic support and assistance through daily homework, educational enrichment, and mad math monday's. During summer camp all youth participate in "learning loss" prevention workshops in reading, math, and science. 1st and 2nd-grade members take part in a year-long innovative art program that weaves literacy and fine motor skill development in an alternative learning environment. More than 95% of youth progressed to the next grade each year! 80% of youth sustained or gained in reading and math in summer workshops! Literacy is at the heart of all extended learning programs here at gsgbc. We know from years of educational research data, youth that read on grade-level by the end of 3rd grade will graduate from high school at a 90% rate; increasing the odds of student matriculating to post-secondary education. To address this key benchmark, obtain the best roi for youth, stakeholders, and community gsgbc provides literacy intervention services through the blueprint for reading success program. Youth are 1 to 2 full grade-levels behind when entering the program. They are pre and post-tested with a nationally recognized standardized test, receive approximately 15 - 20 hours of one-on-one tutoring from mo certified teacher or club learning specialist.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.8%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 66.3%; rating input score 66
- Fundraising efficiency: $9.97 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -31.7%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.9; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.4%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 88.8% of revenue deployed · 66.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 19 of 19 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $123K · 20 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 57/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.