Sphere Consortium Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237014582
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2023
- Forms available
- Form 990 2017, Form 990-EZ 2023
- Location
- Suffield, CT, USA
- Phone
- 8606687315
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $39,050
- Expenses
- $62,849
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Meera Viswanathan (President)
- Elaine White (Vice President)
- Kathryn Windsor (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Charles Cahn (Board Member)
- Meera Viswanathan (President)
- Elaine White (Vice President)
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
The mission of SPHERE is to help the member schools to collaborate in becoming and remaining culturally diverse, inclusive, and responsive environments for teaching and learning. To this end, the member schools, individually and collectively, seek to achieve diversity in faculties, staff, and student bodies, to create within each school and among the member schools a climate of respect for differences, to encourage multi-cultural perspectives in curricular and extracurricular programs, and to build bridges between city/suburb and public/private sectors, races, and classes. SPHERE schools do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, age, or ability in the administration of their hiring, admission policies, scholarship and loan programs, academic, athletic, or other school-administered programs.
What it reported doing in 2023
The member schools conducted programs and held activities furthering a long history of collaborating in becoming and remaining culturally diverse, inclusive, and responsive environments for teaching, learning, and employment
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- Member-benefit provider. The nonprofit used 89% of its reported program spending for member benefits.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 52
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 13
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 61.3%; rating input score 61
- Program expense ratio: 38.1%; rating input score 38
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -60.9%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.5% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 61.3% of revenue deployed · 38.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $24K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2011 to 2023
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.