Huntsville Inner City Learning Center Inc

What it reported doing in 2024

The center's after-school program provided educational services, including tutoring, mentoring, homework oversight, counseling, physical fitness, enrichment activities, and a nutritious snack to students four days a week during the school year. In spring 2024, the center served an average of 82 students daily, and in fall 2024, 91 students were served daily. Each student spent three hours each afternoon at the center, totaling more than 417 hours per student during the school year. During this time, students received more than 65 hours of guided physical fitness, 208.5 enrichment hours, and 153 hours of tutoring and test preparation. Over 12,000 healthy snacks were served throughout the school year. Over 400 volunteers gave their time and talents across the calendar year to make these services possible. The center partnered with 30 schools (21 of which were title 1 schools) across huntsville and the surrounding areas, including public, private, and homeschool co-ops. Guest speakers and community partners played a significant role in enriching the program. Highlights included a former hlc student now enrolled at dartmouth university, a former professional football player inducted into the madison county sports hall of fame, the head of calhoun community college's fine arts department, a drone pilot, huntsville's city manager of planning services, mazda-toyota team leaders, engineers, and more. Students experienced hands-on lessons in manufacturing processes, including an assembly line activity led by mazda-toyota. The center expanded enrichment offerings in 2024, providing fine arts, music production, pickleball, basketball, soccer, etiquette classes, reader's theater, harp, stem, stream, and modern dance. Students were given the opportunity to select their preferred activities, increasing engagement and interest. A highlight of the year was the addition of a 17' x 17' pavilion and green space created with the help of keller williams realty agents and volunteers. Students participated in gardening lessons, and older students created bouquets from flowers they cultivated. One of the biggest program accomplishments was the stream team's trip to los angeles, California, where four team members accepted the runner-up prize for the sme skillsusa additive manufacturing competition. For the four students who attended, it was their first time flying, and the experience of attending sme's rapid+tct conference opened doors to a world of possibilities.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 52%; rating input score 52
• Program expense ratio: 72.5%; rating input score 73
• Fundraising efficiency: $14.5 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 49; 49th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
• 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: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
  • 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: Missing
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 29.1%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.09; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 11.7%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 12.9% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 20.5% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 30.6% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings