Life Skills Center Inc D/b/a Equip K-12 Academy
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 270594430
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2016
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2016, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Jonesboro, AR, USA
- Phone
- 8709325561
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $178,305
- Expenses
- $175,784
- Assets
- $4,042
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2016. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PAM ALEXANDER (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- SHARON SMITH (DIRECTOR)
- KYLE WINDMEYER (DIRECTOR)
- JOANNE STEED GURLEY (PRINCIPAL)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2016. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide services for children in grades k-12 who have autism or other developmental delays.
What it reported doing in 2016
Provide a highly structured and sensory rich learning environment that enables students with autism and other developmental delays participate in and derive benefit from life skills training, social skills enrichment, & educational programming.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 64% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 98.6%; rating input score 99
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.4%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.02; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.6%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 98.6% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $176K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 28/100.