Rhode Island Commission for National and Community Service
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 050479705
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2018
- Forms available
- Form 990 2018
- Location
- Providence, RI, USA
- Phone
- 4013312298
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,339,879
- Expenses
- $1,465,677
- Assets
- $56,857
- Liabilities
- $56,857
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JIM BERSON (INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- ADAM DONALDSON (DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS): $41,725 total reported compensation
- JIM BERSON (INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $33,768 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Serve Rhode Island's mission is to transform the lives of rhode islanders by increasing the number of people engaged in volunteer and service activities in their communities.
What it reported doing in 2018
Americorps program: americorps is a federally funded national service program, which engages full and part-time volunteers in intensive, results-driven community service. In exchange for a year of service, members receive a modest living allowance and may be eligible to receive a post-service education award to assist repayment of existing qualified student loans or to defray future costs of college, graduate school, or vocational training at qualified institutions of higher education. Americorps members commit between 300 and 1,700 hours over the course of a year to federal and local priority areas including education, economic opportunity, veterans services, healthy futures, and more. Rhode Island's americorps programs, funded through the commission, focuses on meeting critical educational and human needs by increasing educational opportunities and experiences for students in grades pre-kindergarten - 12 and access to resources for low-income individuals in the state. As the state commission, serve Rhode Island provides support to subgrantee program staff and americorps members, administers the annual grant process, and provides oversight for federal and state compliance to subgrantees.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 81% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 16
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 93.2%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9.4%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.04; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.2%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -8.9% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -8.9% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -12.2% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 93.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $42K · 20 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2011 to 2018
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 13 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 11 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.