Martin Luther King Community Center Incorporated
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 050271882
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Newport, RI, USA
- Phone
- 4018464828
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Recreational Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $10,059,097
- Expenses
- $5,478,691
- Assets
- $22,552,888
- Liabilities
- $310,871
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- HEATHER HOLE STROUT (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- KIMBERLY CUMMINS (PRESIDENT)
- ROSE HYDER (VICE PRESIDENT, FORMER DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- HEATHER HOLE STROUT (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $172,927 total reported compensation
- ALYSON NOVICK (DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT): $125,148 total reported compensation
- HEATHER LYNCH (DIRECTOR OF FINANCE): $113,398 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The martin luther king community center, inc. (mlkcc) nourishes, educates, and supports newport county residents to improve their economic and social well-being.
What it reported doing in 2025
Hunger services strives to help residents of newport county move from hunger to health via urgent food services and nutritional counseling and education. July 1, 2025 - june 30, 2026, 6,615 individuals were served through our various hunger relief programs. Our hunger relief services include a food pantry, breakfast program, food 2 friends, produce to the people, lunch distribution 3 days per week, holiday distribution and school pantries. These programs distributed 1,892,199 meals in the form of prepared meals and groceries.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 82% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 92% 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. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 69
- Accountability: 86
- Sustainability: 79
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 64.2%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 83.6%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $15.93 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.7%; rating input score 95; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 45.5%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.12; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.5%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.7% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.5% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 64.2% of revenue deployed · 83.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $4.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $173K · 13 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 48/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 39/100.