Pine Manor Improvement Association Inc

What it reported doing in 2024

It is to provide valuable resources to meet the daily needs of our community. This includes but is not limited to a food bank, assistance with housing and services, availability of computers to complete job searches, resume writing assistance, applications for jobs, access assistance for food stamps and medicaid and an after-school program. Additionally, we will use funds to improve neighborhood involvement in our ten annual events including: easter egg hunt, our annual keep lee county beautiful trash bash, volunteer appreciation dinner, end of summer fling (our goal is to provide 500 children with back packs and school supplies), celebrating safe communities (community march), make a difference day, annual "trunk or treat", thanksgiving dinner for neighborhood and christmas dinner with santa and our adopt a family program, our organization has incurred substantial growth in the last few years, serving almost 1500 unduplicated clients each month with 55% of those served being children between the ages of 0-18. Among the families who have children in our programs, the average yearly income is $20,000. All of the children currently enrolled in our programs are recipients of the free and reduced lunch program at school. Many of our programs are prevention-orientated and devoted to preventingschool failure and delinquency among at-risk youth. Programs such as ours are the basis for an effective continum of care because they are often the point of entry for families in need of multiple services. By interacting with thefamilies on daily basis, we are able to identify additional services needed and make referrals as appropriate. Emergency food programming, pmia embraces the philsophy that our role is to help end hunger and allow our clients to achieve self-sustainability. To this end, we strive to meet the following goals: *meet the food needs of all pine manor *promote good nutrition and health *foster community economic development *strengthen local and regional food systems *honor and celebrate diverse cultures and traditions *build the capacity for people to create change through empowerment *educate the resident of the benefits and joy of growing, preparing, and eating their own food. Unfortunately, given the economic conditions of the area we serve, this is an ongoing struggle. However, in order to reach the long term goal to end hunger, we have very specific objectives. When a client comes to our center seeking food, we have active volunteers and personnel who ask questions regarding the client's particular need. We assist them with signing up for programs such as snap, unemployment compensation, filling out job applications, resumes and connecting them to job resources. We also strive to help infulence dietary choices for better health through various workshops. In addition, pmia is working with university of Florida's extension services and lee county health department to develop new programs for children and their families, providing education on nutrition. These programs include: *urban agriculture *community and back yard garden *increased access to affordable fresh produce *nutrition education and food self-reliance workshops. Teen outreach programming * the teen outreach program is a well-established, broad developmental intervention programs that attempt to help teens understand and evaluate their life options. The program includes three essential program components: classroom/group instruction, community service and service learning. Classroom/group instruction involves small group activities and discussions on age/stage appropriate topics of special interest to young people. This allos them to examine their values and master life skills within a supportive peer group guided by a trained adult facilitator. Community service offers participants a variety of service and volunteer role, which provides youth with an opportunity to help others, reconnect young people to their communities, challenges them to learn new skill

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 65.5%; rating input score 66
• Program expense ratio: 94%; rating input score 94
• 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
• 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: Fail
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 30.3%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.39; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: Limited
• Revenue growth: 11.5% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings