Needs Based Learning
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 454422921
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 4802274127
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Higher Education Institutions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $250,877
- Expenses
- $61,003
- Assets
- $628,599
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRUCE GRAY (PRESIDENT)
- NANCY JOHNSON PHD RN (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- BRUCE GRAY (PRESIDENT)
- NANCY JOHNSON PHD RN (VICE PRESIDENT)
- FEYGELE JACOBS DRPH (SECRETARY)
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 assure the national safety nets supply of compassionate community-minded healers.
What it reported doing in 2024
Nbl continues to promote strategies, systems programs to improve the supply of community-minded, compassionate, committed healers for the national safety-net of community health centers. The organization works to bring the community health center movement, a.t. Still university, accrediting licensing bodies together to address the tremendous shortage of healers for under-served communities. Nbl continues encouraging the development of a learning-in-place, learning-at-your-own-speed nurse to provider program for working adults a pathway for oral health professionals that allows training for lower level workers to apply toward higher level provider degrees for a new physician specialty designed by for the community health center movement.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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 available resources goes toward mission work and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 43
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 90
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 22.5%; rating input score 23
- Program expense ratio: 91.5%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: 75.7%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 10.3; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.6% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.4% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 22.5% of revenue deployed · 91.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $56K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 17 of 17 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 23/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.