National Center for Civic Innovation In
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 020590588
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2129256675
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Small Business Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $71,096,281
- Expenses
- $50,166,592
- Assets
- $93,550,802
- Liabilities
- $25,344,082
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LISETTE NIEVES (BOARD MEMBER / PRESIDENT)
- ALDRIN BONILLA (EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- LISETTE NIEVES (BOARD MEMBER / PRESIDENT): $500,595 total reported compensation
- ALDRIN BONILLA (EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT): $363,750 total reported compensation
- JILL E BORRERO (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $299,772 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The board of the fund for the city of New York created the national center for civic innovation in 1992 to facilitate the adaptation in other areas of the country and beyond of some of the initiatives the fund developed to promote the performance of government and nonprofit organizations. The fund and the national center have a shared board and staff.
What it reported doing in 2024
Ncci conducts its charitable activities, in part, through its partner project program, under which approved charitable programs operate as projects of ncci and are subject to ncci's oversight, financial controls, human resources policies, and organizational structure and policies. Ncci's partner project programs focus on a variety of charitable activities, such as community services, education, and other charitable programs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 66% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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
STRONG - 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 some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 83
- Sustainability: 78
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 99.9%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: $1,788.49 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 89.6%; rating input score 90; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 29.4%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.86; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.27; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.6%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17.4% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 17.8% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.6% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 71% of revenue deployed · 99.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 7 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $50.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $501K · 10 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 27 of 28 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 7 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 59/100.