Lincoln Heights Outreach Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
460674309
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Cincinnati, OH, USA
Phone
5137446260
Rating
75
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Protestant
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,100,554
Expenses
$1,009,478
Assets
$180,384
Liabilities
$1,522

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • KAREN WILLIAMS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • PAMELA HARRISON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • PAMELA HARRISON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $59,115 total reported compensation
  • KAREN WILLIAMS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $13,500 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Empower families and individuals towards becoming self sufficient through opportunities that impact their overall social, emotional, physical, mental, spiritual and economic well-being within the adjacent and surrounding neighborhoods in cincinnati and hamilton county, Ohio.

What it reported doing in 2024

Lincoln heights outreach hope afterschool enrichment program (lhoep)lhoep consist of two components (1) a 3 hour per day afterschool enrichment program during the school year, (2) a seven hour per day summer camp for eight weeks. The program serves students k-5 through academic and enrichment programs, providing mentoring and parent engagement. The goal is to empower students culturally, socially, academically, and economically. The program is steam and character development focused, and typically serves 30 to 40 students afterschool, and 70 to 80 during the summer. The program received $17,500 in food donations for the summer camp program.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 63% 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

SUPPORTED - 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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 75
  • Transparency & Controls: 85
  • Accountability: 63
  • Sustainability: 43
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 74.8%; rating input score 75
  • Program expense ratio: 81.5%; rating input score 82
  • Fundraising efficiency: $17.77 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 8th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • 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: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 8.3%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.18; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 7.2%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 24.4% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 31% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 85.2% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 74.8% of revenue deployed · 81.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $823K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $59K · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 20 of 21 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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.

  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 7 not reported.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 55/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 46/100.