South End Childrens Cafe Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 823434643
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2021
- Location
- Albany, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5182758890
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,502,460
- Expenses
- $996,786
- Assets
- $1,997,964
- Liabilities
- $754,581
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Amanda Boyd (Board President)
- Antoinette Santos (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Amanda Boyd (Board President)
- Julia Johnson (Director)
- Kimberly Jones (Director)
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
The mission of the South End Children's Cafe is to impact food security, address food equality and food justice, enhance academic success and positively influence the physical and mental health of children by offering free, healthy meals along with homework help, academic enrichment, mentoring, exercise and participation in the arts.
What it reported doing in 2024
FOOD SERVICE TO CHILDREN: No child should be concerned about what they are going to eat for dinner, or if they are going to get to eat dinner. A child should not experience health challenges because they are not getting enough nutritional food to eat. A child should not bestruggling in school because they are hungry. And a parent should not have to tell their child or children they have no food to give them to eat. Our food is donated by people who conduct food drives for us, purchase food or donate gift cards to area grocery stores. With monetarydonations, we are able to purchase our meat and produce for the week. We have a chef and several nutritionists who consult with us to prepare healthy, well balanced and delicious meals. All of the children enrolled in the Cafe are involved, offering a sense of responsibility toand ownership in the South End Childrens Cafe. Children take turns serving the salads, main course and dessert, and refilling water and milk glasses. No child should be concerned about what they are going to eat for dinner, or if they are going to get to eat dinner.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% 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
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 71
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 56.1%; rating input score 56
- Program expense ratio: 84.2%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $60.39 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- 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: Fail
- 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: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 33.7%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.38; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 31.2% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 63.3% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 95.9% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 56.1% of revenue deployed · 84.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $839K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 25 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 56/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D other liabilities reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Conflict-of-interest policy not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.