Savannah Early Childhood Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 452647987
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2020
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2016
- Location
- Savannah, GA, USA
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Pediatrics
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $293,728
- Expenses
- $621,486
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
People named in this filing
- DR ANTHONY COOK (BOARD MEMBER)
- AMANDA DRAUGHT (BOARD MEMBER)
- PAUL FISHER (CHAIRMAN/PRE)
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 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The savannah early childhood foundation will continue to secure funding and community partners, deploying those resources neighborhood-by-neighborhood for at-risk families' parent skills training, tracking and measuring parental knowledge acquisition and application, so parents become their children's first, best and most effective teachers and advocates from birth to age five, with the overall objective of all savannah children being school-ready (as defined by the savannah chatham county public school system) at school age. Additionally, elc's are designed with and for parents, to increase neighborhood participations to "critical mas", where attendance and application of training received becomes the community cultural norm, rather than the exception.
What it reported doing in 2020
Continues to expand parent skills training at early learning colleges for savannah inner-city parents with children ages birth-to-3/4/5 years beyond the original nine targeted neighborhoods secf now serves, to those additional residential and church locations secf has been asked to serve with sessions (baby showers and special events) at each location to attract and introduce parents to early learning college training, while providing naeyc accredited childcare, skills acquisition measurement and increasing attendance of both parents and children. To accomplish this, the secf consults with new parents to provide a mutually developed needs assessment for early childhood education and parent skill enhancement for those resource-challenged families in the greater savannah, Georgia area. As of december 31, 2020, the organization transferred its assets to community united services to continue a similar work.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 61% for direct work, and 39% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 10
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 98.9%; rating input score 99
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 79th 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: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -111.6%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 53.8% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 19.4% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.9% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 98.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $614K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 14 of 14 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2017 to 2020
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.