Literacy Council of St Marys County Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
521414273
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2008
Location
Lexington Park, MD, USA
Phone
3018634847
Rating
95
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$17,421
Expenses
$22,886
Assets
$41,974
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Amy Ford (President of BoD)
  • Robert Goldsmith (Vice President of BoD)
  • Susan Brookbank (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Amy Ford (President of BoD)
  • Robert Goldsmith (Vice President of BoD)
  • Frank Taylor (Secretary of BoD)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Literacy Council of St. Mary's County relies on volunteers both to help English speaking adults with fundamental reading, comprehension, writing, and basic math skills. The Literacy Council also helps non-English proficient, often foreign-born students, to master English as a second language. The Council is governed by a Board of Directors made up of eight uncompensated, volunteer citizens.

What it reported doing in 2024

Support one-on-one tutoring for adults who want to read, write and speak English. We also support tutoring in mathematics and preparation of adults for the Graduate Education Degree (GED) exam. With an influx of immigrants, we further support one-on-one English Language Learners (ELL) training.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 84% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 36
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -31.4%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.83; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 1.5%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 23.5% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -9.9% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 0% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $53K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
  • 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 — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.