Jersey City Child Development Centers Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 221920507
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2011
- Forms available
- Form 990 2011
- Location
- Jersey City, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 2016561500
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Elementary, Secondary Education, K - 12
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $11,027,268
- Expenses
- $11,072,683
- Assets
- $9,062,860
- Liabilities
- $1,050,518
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2011. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2011. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Jersey city child development centers offers many opportunities for children to succeed in school and in life. Through positive interactions, children will be introduced to learning experiences that promote thinking, teach problem solving skills, and develop early literacy skills.
What it reported doing in 2011
To provide a comprehensive early child development program for the disadvantaged preschool children and their families. Headstart serves approximately 712 children in the surrounding areas. The agency provides a quality structure of program governance, which effectively employs the policy council, parent committees, governing body and staff in order to achieve school readiness goals and enhance positive child outcomes.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 98% 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: 100
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 42
- 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; 59th 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; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.4%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.82; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.2%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -2.1% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.4% per year; rating input score 0; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $9.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $150K · 20 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2009 to 2011
- 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 — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.