Philadelphia Community Empowerment Through Soccer
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 471773977
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2019
- Location
- Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Phone
- 2678501332
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,598,887
- Expenses
- $1,075,727
- Assets
- $824,886
- Liabilities
- $228,926
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DR JENNIFER NIEVES (PRESIDENT)
- YADELIES PRIETO (VICE-PRESIDENT)
- JAMES HARDY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- DR JENNIFER NIEVES (PRESIDENT)
- FELICIA BRYANT DAWSON (TREASURER)
- YADELIES PRIETO (VICE-PRESIDENT)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We believe in community empowerment through soccer. Our mission is to work with kensington area youth and families to provide positive, healthy, and enjoyable youth soccer activities while building teamwork, leadership, and community.
What it reported doing in 2024
Violence Prevention Our violence prevention programs, mainly for teens and young adults, focuses on providing safe, healthy, positive alternatives to engaging in counterproductive behavior, on promoting pro-social activities, on anti- violence education, and on connecting participants to needed social services. They included: 1.Our Pick-Up Soccer For Peace and Friday Night Lights activities, take place when there are fewer positive options available to youth, and include discussions of alternatives to risky behaviors involving violence and drug use, incentives for pro-social engagement and the offer to connect participants with social services. 2. Our KSC Prep after-school teen program provided academic help and social and community engagement along with soccer. Teens participated in workshops, a career/college fair, and other activities, including a Black History Month writing activity. 3. KSCs Intervention & Prevention Coordinator facilitated connection to community resources for Friday Night Lights and KSC Prep enrollees and other club participants, some of which included getting behavioral health treatment. 4. Adult league teams offered a way for people over 18 to stay involved or get involved with the organization by participating in positive, affordable soccer that also had pro-social and anti-violence educational components
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 66% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 61.3%; rating input score 61
- Program expense ratio: 91.1%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: $89.23 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- 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: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 32.7%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.77; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.28; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 36.5% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 30.1% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 27.1% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 61.3% of revenue deployed · 91.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 6 filed program accomplishments · $980K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 23 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.