Ihmcenter for Literacy & Gedprograms
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 232642548
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Phone
- 2153383120
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $174,996
- Expenses
- $165,396
- Assets
- $292,057
- Liabilities
- $16,502
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MELANIE MENKEVICH (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- MELANIE MENKEVICH (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $28,381 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 IHM Center for Literacy, an educational outreach of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate of Mary, is committed to facilitating the inclusion of immigrants into American society through the teaching of English language, technology, citizenship, and life skills for the community and workplace. The Center serves multi-ethnic, non-English-speaking adults in the Philadelphia region. ORGANIZATION HAS EXISTED FOR 34 YEARS AND HAS TAUGHT APPROXIMATELY 300 STUDENTS PER SEMESTER, EACH YEAR.
What it reported doing in 2024
English for speakers of other languages (esol); courses develop proficiency in speaking, understanding, reading, and writing english. The organization has existed for 34 years and has taught approximately 300 students each semester.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 93% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Accountability: 87
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 84.3%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $129.6 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 86.7%; rating input score 87; 3rd 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: 95%; rating input score 95; 26th 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: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.5%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.77; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80% of revenue deployed · 84.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 19 of 20 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $139K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $28K · 20 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 26 current checks pass · 3 findings to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D expense reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D revenue reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule M noncash within contributions did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.