Junior League of the City of New York Inc

What it reported doing in 2024

See schedule oduring 2024-2025, the nyjl serves thousands of individuals through its community programs. Volunteers design and lead lessons, workshops, field trips, and support shifts through approximately 60 community-based organizations. The league serves additional community partners through on-demand volunteer opportunities such as delivering meals, tutoring students, supporting community meals and food pantries, and sorting and bundling donations. The league works across several areas of community and training programming, including: adult education and mentoring: working with organizations like the english-speaking union, the league supports clients, from young adults to seniors, as they transition out of foster care, homelessness, rehabilitation programs, or the criminal justice system to forge a path to independent living by delivering life skills workshops, covering topics such as financial literacy, job search skills, budgeting, and healthy meal preparation. As clients face economic hardships and health challenges and recover from traumatic events, the league's volunteers help connect clients to resources and provide companionship.children's education, culture, and the arts: the league's volunteers develop programs and tools to enhance the socio-emotional learning of children from under-resourced communities. Partnering with community-based organizations, such as union settlement, the league's volunteers work with children of all ages to inspire a sense of curiosity and investigation and to foster educational aspirations through hands-on science and art activities, reading workshops, career exploration, and leadership development. In addition, the league's volunteers promote children's self-expression through arts education including introducing children to live musical and theatrical performances, cultural institutions, and promoting visual arts education.child health and welfare: these programs work with children of all ages, as well as their families and caretakers, to demonstrate that challenging life circumstances provide opportunities to learn, grow, and persevere. Working with community partners like scanharbor and good shepherd services, the league's volunteers mentor children as they build healthy self-esteem and deeper self-awareness, develop positive relationships, and strengthen their physical and mental health.city impact: in response to community partners' urgent requests for support, the league mobilizes volunteers for immediate, short-term service that helps community partners carry out their missions and meet their clients' immediate needs, including tutoring students, delivering meals to homebound seniors, creating care packages for homeless women, or serving meals to guests struggling with food insecurity. Every year, the league invests funds and volunteers' time in restoring public parks and community spaces to create welcoming environments conducive to fitness, health, recreation, and socialization.social action and advocacy: the league advocates for various New York state and New York city policies impacting women, children, and families. The league partners with junior leagues across the state and various local coalitions comprising community-based organizations and advocates to promote policy change and ensure appropriate funding for programs supporting women, children, and families.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 84.2%; rating input score 84
• Program expense ratio: 72.6%; rating input score 73
• Fundraising efficiency: $4.18 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 20th percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
  • Compensation committee: Pass
  • Independent consultant: Missing
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Missing
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• 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; 63rd 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: -13.4%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.3; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.25; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 9.2%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: -0.4% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: -2.2% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings