Highbridge Community Life Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 133015539
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2012
- Forms available
- Form 990 2012
- Location
- Bronx, NY, USA
- Phone
- 7186812222
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Neighborhood Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,777,143
- Expenses
- $4,292,904
- Assets
- $1,769,061
- Liabilities
- $1,209,716
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2012. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2012. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Highbridge community life center, inc. Provides a community based and directed social service center in the highbridge section of the bronx, ny. The center supplies information, referral, advocacy and problem solving assistance to people of the bronx to improve community and to increase their individual well being.
What it reported doing in 2012
Adult education - provides instruction in academic basics and individual support that allow our students to live their most successful lives and for individuals to fulfill their potential in the classroom with reading, writing and mathematics instruction, and in their personal lives with social services and career counseling.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 70% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 18
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 60th 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; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -13.7%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.41; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.68; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.5%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -21.9% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -19% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $3.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $79K · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2009 to 2012
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 50/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.