Metro Community Development Corporation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 043611860
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2014
- Location
- Buffalo, NY, USA
- Phone
- 7168967021
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Recreational Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $517,385
- Expenses
- $429,265
- Assets
- $485,083
- Liabilities
- $48,237
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Candace Moppins (Executive Director)
- Adrienne Garr (President)
- Angie Davis-Leveritte (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Candace Moppins (Executive Director): $45,827 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To relieve the poor, the distressed and the under privileged and combat community deterioration in the Buffalo-Niagara region of New York State, by establishing and maintaining a faith-based community development corporation.
What it reported doing in 2024
Community Activities We have been a provider of summer camp for over 15 years. Our summer camp provides youth an exciting and action-packed 8 weeks of activities. The children are all enrolled in the Mayor's Reading Challenge and are encouraged to read, and compose an essay on each book they read. They participate in ELA and math classes to prevent summer time academic loss. They participate in creating science projects, go on nature walks and take weekly field trips. Through our collaboration with Cornell Cooperative Extension and their program, Healthy Eats New York, our youth are actively involved in developing healthy eating habits that decrease obesity and childhood diabetes.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 67% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 74% for direct work, and 26% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76.6%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 92.3%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: $161.35 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.13; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.7%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.3% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.8% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 24% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 76.6% of revenue deployed · 92.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $396K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $46K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 31 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 35/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.