Standing for Change Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 463710414
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2015
- Forms available
- Form 990 2015
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2407439623
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $371,734
- Expenses
- $420,082
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2015. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Paul Himmelfarb (President)
- Edward S Johnson (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Patwinder Sidhu (Chairperson)
- Paul Himmelfarb (President)
- Edward S Johnson (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. Selected filing: tax year 2015. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
A College honor society that is dedicated to enhancing students Leadership, Achievement, and Community skills. Students have access to a powerful, customized skills development platform, vibrant mentor and peer community, and competency-based certification.
What it reported doing in 2015
The Organization has developed a Honor Society with 135+ chapters across the country, is founded on the premise that students learn their strengths and develop their passions through experience and meaningful relationships with peers and mentors, who offer their valuable experiences and insights.Members are guided by mentors who share their passion for success. The organization believes that it is crucial to develop the leaders of tomorrow through the guidance of todays leaders.Members have access to a powerful, customized, skills development platform via the Internet. This platform provides members with the following tools: 1. Work place skills development; 2. Self-Assessment Tools with individualized development plans; 3. Timely expert advice; 4. Access to Top-Teir Internships and career experience opportunities; and 5. A network of successful individuals and all many different careers.With the assistance of the organization, Students identify their paths, develop personal and academic skills, and build meaningful relationships that transform them into effective leaders.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 18
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.2%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 69.2%; rating input score 69
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 6th 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: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -13%; rating input score 19; 19th 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 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -30.3% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -30.2% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -200% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.2% of revenue deployed · 69.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $291K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 21 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2014 to 2015
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.