New Jersey Tutoring Corps Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
883372643
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Newark, NJ, USA
Phone
6099925532
Rating
66
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Educational Services and Schools - Other

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$4,345,774
Expenses
$4,326,024
Assets
$2,571,897
Liabilities
$153,574

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DR TONYA BRELAND (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • MONICA GONCALVES (PRESIDENT)
  • KATHERINE BASSETT (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)

Highest reported compensation

  • KATHERINE BASSETT (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $196,379 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 New Jersey tutoring corps is a group of committed, visionary educators devoted to growing young minds and strengthening teaching and learning through high-dosage tutoring experiences, while growing an educator pipeline.

What it reported doing in 2024

New Jersey tutoring corps, inc. Provided high-impact tutoring services in literacy and mathematics during the summer of 2024 to over 2100 scholars at 23 partner locations, 19 of which were community organizations (boys and girls clubs and ymcas) whose programs were funded completely or mostly from the budget appropriations received by njtc from the state of New Jersey's department of education in 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025.New Jersey tutoring corps, inc. Partnered with ilearn schools, inc., a charter management organization, during the 2023-2024 school year for our largest fee-for-service program to date. Through this initiative, we provided high-impact tutoring services in literacy and mathematics to almost 900 scholars at 10 ilearn partner locations, partially subsidized with matching funds drawn from the $1.5mm budget appropriation awarded to njtc by the state of New Jersey department of education in august 2023. Njtc continued its collaboration with ilearn during the 2024-2025 school year, serving 776 scholars in literacy and mathematics across our partner locations. Ilearn schools has expressed satisfaction with our tutoring services and has extended their rfp, endorsing a third year of our partnership in the 2025-2026 school year, during which we have been serving 702 scholars in literacy and mathematics.New Jersey tutoring corps, inc. Partnered with the gloucester township school district during the 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 school years to deliver high-impact tutoring in literacy and mathematics to scholars in grades 2-5. In the 2023-2024 school year, njtc served 227 scholars across 8 locations. During the 2024-2025 school year, we continued our partnership to support learners at 4 schools, reaching 183 scholars in literacy and mathematics. The gloucester township school district has been pleased with the results, allowing us to continue working with them in the 2025-2026 school year, during which we have been serving 49 scholars in literacy and mathematics.New Jersey tutoring corps, inc. Partnered with the hamilton township school district during the 2023-2024 school year to provide high-impact tutoring services in literacy and mathematics to their scholars. During the 2022-2023 school year and summer 2023 program, njtc served 109 hamilton scholars through a partnership with the hamilton ymca. The district was so pleased with our work that they engaged us in 2023-2024, when 634 scholars were served across 17 locations. Njtc continued its collaboration during the 2024-2025 school year, serving 270 scholars across 6 schools. The hamilton township school district has remained highly satisfied with the results, allowing us to continue working with them in the 2025-2026 school year, during which we have been serving 148 scholars in literacy and mathematics.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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 - 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: 60
  • Transparency & Controls: 61
  • Accountability: 84
  • Sustainability: 37
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 66.8%; rating input score 67
  • Program expense ratio: 66.7%; rating input score 67
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 13th 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: 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 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 0.5%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.59; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 4.5%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 72.3% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 39.1% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 23.4% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 66.8% of revenue deployed · 66.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.9M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $196K · 10 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $116K reported
  • Consistency: 28 of 29 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

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 8 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 57/100.