Literacy Volunteers of Collier County Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 650181251
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2015
- Location
- Naples, FL, USA
- Phone
- 2392624448
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Adult, Continuing Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $394,814
- Expenses
- $466,504
- Assets
- $368,768
- Liabilities
- $3,647
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Francis Fee (President)
- Mary Colina (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Francis Fee (President)
- Christian Spitz (Director)
- Peter Zimmermann (Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To enhance the lives of our students and families by improving their literary skills.
What it reported doing in 2024
LVCC offers both in-class and one-on-one tutoring sessions. Students and tutors meet once or twice a week for at least 1.5 hours and work together on improving English skills. Students are at different levels of English and are assigned to classes accordingly. There are mixed groups of students with a number of native languages including Spanish, Haitian Creole, Middle Eastern and Asian language groups. Students generally remain in the program until their skill level meets their expectation for better employment and they become more functional in the community. LVCC offers programs online as well as face-to-face traditional classes. There was an average of more than 300 adult students per month being served throughout the year. Citizenship: Students attend a 6-week course to prepare themselves for the US citizenship test. All instruction is carried out by LVCC tutors, and all materials are supplied by LVCC. Instruction focuses on improving English skills and gaining the knowledge required to be successful on the citizenship test. The success rate is very high and over 550 students have completed the course over the years and become US citizens. This year LVCC provided 18 students with citizenship preparation classes.
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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 58
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.8%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 54.8%; rating input score 55
- Fundraising efficiency: $2.91 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -18.2%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.79; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.8% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 67.8% of revenue deployed · 54.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $256K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 55/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.