Parlez-vous Francais Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 208051559
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2015
- Location
- Chatham, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 8625797707
- Rating
- 63
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Humanities Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $151,485
- Expenses
- $151,449
- Assets
- $202,995
- Liabilities
- $155,831
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CAROLA CLEMENT (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- CAROLA CLEMENT (PRESIDENT): $43,063 total reported compensation
- HAYETTE MEZIANE (DIRECTOR): $19,937 total reported compensation
- SANDRA DEMAKOS (TREASURER): $599 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To teach the french language to students whose parents are francophone expatriates in the USA for an extended period of time.
What it reported doing in 2024
To teach the french language to students whose parents are francophone expatriates working in the USA for an extended period of time
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 95% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 32
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.3%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 73%; rating input score 73
- 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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 7th 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: 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.34; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.77; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 42%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -8.7% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.2% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 69.3% of revenue deployed · 73% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 4 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $111K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $43K · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 17 of 17 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 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.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.