Noma Improvement Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 760832248
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2022890111
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Business and Industry
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,559,404
- Expenses
- $4,617,152
- Assets
- $6,158,792
- Liabilities
- $4,774,874
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
25 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MAURA BROPHY (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- MAURA BROPHY (PRESIDENT): $306,112 total reported compensation
- SHERRI CUNNINGHAM (DIRECTOR, MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS): $193,855 total reported compensation
- BRIAN SMITH (DIRECTOR OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT): $185,248 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Economic development organization that promotes the revitalization of the 35-block neighborhood just north of union station in Washington, dc. We provide street and sidewalk cleaning services, public safety support, marketing and events, and coordination with private developers and public agencies.
What it reported doing in 2024
Public space maintenance: the association provide a clean team that removes trash, weeds, graffiti sediment and other debris from the streets and sidewalks on a daily basis. The association also hosts monthly public safety meetings with the metropolitan police department (mpd), other local police and property owners to address local public safety concerns. The association coordinates with mpd and public and social services agencies to assure street conditions are conductive to neighborhood's visitors, workers, and residents. Hospitality ambassadors provide a welcoming presence for the neighborhood's visitors, workers, and residents. They assist in the experiential connectivity of the neighborhood, promote events distribute branded materials and provide information to the public. They also provide directions and information, assist in connecting homeless persons with services, provide event support and report infrastructure issues to city agencies.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 91% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- 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: 48.2%; rating input score 48; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.3%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.33; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.78; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 24.3%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.2% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $306K · 25 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $266K reported
- Consistency: 14 of 15 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 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.
- 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.