Luk Crisis Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 042483679
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Fitchburg, MA, USA
- Phone
- 9783450685
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $30,322,286
- Expenses
- $29,752,811
- Assets
- $13,489,216
- Liabilities
- $3,875,845
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRENDA L BUCKLEY (PRESIDENT)
- BETH BARTO (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- BETH BARTO (PRESIDENT & CEO): $162,681 total reported compensation
- THOMAS HALL (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $149,944 total reported compensation
- DAVID HAMOLSKY (CLINICAL DIRECTOR): $147,612 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
A multi-cultural, prevention, intervention, advocacy and treatment service leader; systemic, vital and accessible to at-risk youths and their families.
What it reported doing in 2024
Promoting youth / family solutions (pyfs)
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 99% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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
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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 86
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.9%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 82.4%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- 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; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.9%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.45; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.29; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.5%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.9% of revenue deployed · 82.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 64 filed program accomplishments · $24.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $163K · 19 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $402K reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.