Rise Above Poverty Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
825169763
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2018–2023
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2023
Location
Syracuse, NY, USA
Phone
3159374321
Rating
64
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Children's, Youth Services

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$141,744
Expenses
$45,694
Assets
$207,554
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Reggie Kelley (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Reggie Kelley (Executive Director)
  • Julie Tantalo (Director of Development)
  • Sandra Corriders (Director of Finance)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To bring awareness to homelessness and poverty

What it reported doing in 2023

Reading Clinic - Supported students with critically low reading proficiency, striving to elevate them to their appropriate grade reading level. Throughout the course of one year, three sessions were conducted: Spring, Summer, and Fall, catering to a total of 17, 11, and 6 students, respectively. Assessments were conducted at the beginning and end of the Spring and Fall sessions. The results were promising, showing an average class increase in measured reading skills of 15% after the Spring session and a 45% increase after the Fall session.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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 program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 30
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 85
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 17.7%; rating input score 18
  • Program expense ratio: 49.6%; rating input score 50

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 67.8%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.54; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 8.7%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 21.1% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 37.4% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 52.5% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 17.7% of revenue deployed · 49.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $23K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2018 to 2023
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 18/100.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 50/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.