Neighborhood Advocacy Center

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
271387361
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2013–2015
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2015
Location
Charlotte, NC, USA
Phone
7046860026
Rating
90
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Civil Rights, Social Action, Advocacy N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$152,192
Expenses
$168,013
Assets
$6,916
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2015. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Henderson Hill (Chairman of the Board)
  • Cynthia Adcock (Secretary)
  • Rocky Cabagnot (Treasurer)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2015. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Neighborhood Advocacy Center provides essential legal and social work services to parents and families involved in child welfare cases through a client-centered, holistic model of representation. The Neighborhood Advocacy Center operates as a multidisciplinary legal office that addresses the various barriers blocking parents from improving their lives and maintaining custody of their children. The Neighborhood Advocacy Center's goal is to increase family reunifications and placement of children with family to prevent the unnecessary placement and prolonged stay of children in foster care.

What it reported doing in 2015

The Neighborhood Advocacy Center provides indigent families involved in abuse, neglect, dependency and termination of parental rights proceedings in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina free legal and social work services through a client-centered, holistic model of representation. The Neighborhood Advocacy Center seeks to reunify families where the children have been removed from the home by the Department of Social Services and to prevent the unnecessary placement and prolonged stay of children in foster care. At any given time, the Neighborhood Advocacy Center represents approximately seventy-five (75) cases.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 80% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 96
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 18
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 99.3%; rating input score 99
  • Program expense ratio: 90%; rating input score 90

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -10.4%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.04; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 47.6%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -2.5% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -3% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 99.3% of revenue deployed · 90% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $151K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2013 to 2015
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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

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  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.