Hartfords Proud Drill Drum & Dance Corp
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 471785315
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Hartford, CT, USA
- Phone
- 8609138282
- Rating
- 50
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $94,966
- Expenses
- $73,619
- Assets
- $24,790
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Terry Starks (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Terry Starks (Executive 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
The primary exempt purpose of Hartford's Proud is to prevent violent acts from children in Hartford, CT
What it reported doing in 2025
In the summer of 2025, we provided a 12-week college and career readiness program designed to prepare 27 middle and high school students for life after high school. The program focused on career exploration, post-secondary pathways, financial literacy, leadership development, and essential life skills needed for long-term success. Breakfast and lunch were provided daily to support student participation and wellness throughout the program. Participants attended workshops held for two hours each day and engaged in activities that promoted self-discovery, career exploration, and real-world financial literacy. Students identified their strengths, interests, and goals while learning about career pathways, educational requirements, and workplace expectations. Hands-on activities included FAFSA reviews, scholarship research, financial aid simulations, budgeting exercises, and college cost comparisons involving tuition, fees, housing, transportation, and campus location. The program featured guest speakers from the fields of public safety, the military, public policy, and higher education. A lieutenant discussed firefighting, leadership, and emergency services careers. Military personnel shared information about military career pathways, training opportunities, and educational benefits. A Senior Policy Advisor from the Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection spoke about policymaking and public service careers. Additional workshops focused on college readiness, overcoming self-sabotage, and building self-confidence. Students also participated in college field trips to the University of Connecticut, Trinity College, Capital Community College, and Morgan State University. These visits exposed students to different college environments, cultures, and academic opportunities while helping them better understand post-secondary expectations. Through workshops, guest speaker engagements, field trips, and team-building activities, students gained confidence, leadership skills, financial literacy, and greater awareness of career and educational opportunities. All 27 students maintained at least 80 percent attendance and successfully completed the 12-week program.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 90% 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. 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: 27
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 23.9%; rating input score 24
- Program expense ratio: 30.8%; rating input score 31
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 22.5%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.34; rating input score 25; 25th 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: -40.1% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -10.1% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 85.5% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 23.9% of revenue deployed · 30.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $23K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 24/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 31/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.