New Orleans Career Center

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
822541222
IRS 990 coverage
2019–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
New Orleans, LA, USA
Phone
5049099142
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Vocational, Technical Schools
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$9,879,012
Expenses
$7,289,183
Assets
$4,190,646
Liabilities
$420,786

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

Leadership & pay

15 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CLAIRE JECKLIN (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)

Highest reported compensation

  • CLAIRE JECKLIN (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $202,847 total reported compensation
  • CARLIN JACOBS (CHIEF PROGRAM OFFICER): $164,097 total reported compensation
  • JACOB GLEGHORN (CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER): $148,133 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 orleans career center provides high-quality, industry informed, career and technical education training, credentialing, and support for sucessful high school transition, post secondary placement, and persistence. Through community and (cont'd on sch o) industry collaboration the career center provides responsive programing that transforms the lives of high school students in orleans parish via technical skills training, meaningful work based learning, and the development of imactful relationships

What it reported doing in 2024

The new orleans career center (nocc) is an independent 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. At nocc, high school and adult trainees gain career preparation and technical skills training to earn industry-based credentials (ibcs) for employment in high-wage, high-demand industry sectors. Nocc graduates have the skills, the knowledge, and the networks to compete and add value to careers and classrooms the moment they walk through the door.nocc transforms lives. Our trainees gain technical skills, have meaningful work-based learning experiences, and develop impactful community and employer relationships. Nocc equips trainees to more fully explore their own interests, and (continued on schedule o) ensures they are poised for success in college, careers, and life.

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 total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 68
  • Transparency & Controls: 70
  • Accountability: 91
  • Sustainability: 55
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 59.3%; rating input score 59
  • Program expense ratio: 79.9%; rating input score 80
  • Fundraising efficiency: $40.04 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • 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: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • 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: 26.2%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.57; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 10.7%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 25.4% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 26.5% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 33.9% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 59.3% of revenue deployed · 79.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5.8M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $203K · 15 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $783K reported
  • Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 59/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 28/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 59/100.