Strategic Leadership by Design % Janice O Davis President

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
461237967
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2013–2016
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2016, Form 990-N 2012
Location
Sanford, NC, USA
Phone
9197459660
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Leadership Development

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,730
Expenses
$50,606
Assets
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2016. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

People named in this filing

  • JANICE O DAVIS (EXEC DIRECTO)
  • PRISCILLA MAYNOR (DIRECTOR)
  • JOSEPH GARCIA (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2016. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Mission through the aspiring superintendent fellows program and other leadership development initiatives, strategic leadership by design 's mission is to provide training and leadership development experiences and activities for educators who aspire to lead school districts effectively . The aim of the program is to enhance the leadership effectiveness of participants by developing greater self-awareness, self-efficacy, and empowerment so that candidates may learn new leadership skills and competencies and thus become more competent superintendents or more competitive candidates in their search for a superintendent's position.

What it reported doing in 2016

This program is designed to foster continuous improvement in the public schools of North Carolina by providing training and leadership development experiences and activities, through a multi-day personal leadership effectiveness development program and executive coaching, for professionals who aspire to become school district superintendents. The aim of the program will be to enhance the leadership effectiveness of participants through self-awareness, self-efficacy and empowerment. The primary objective of the program is to provide participating educators who aspire to the superintendency with the information, knowledge, skills, and understandings through experiential learning in a leadership development program, including executive coaching, that will support and assist them as they lead and manage school districts in North Carolina as district superintendents. Over time the overall design is intended to result in enhanced student achievement.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 95
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 7
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 86.3%; rating input score 86

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -2,825.2%; rating input score 1; 1st 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 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -16.5% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -60.5% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -48.9% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 86.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $44K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2013 to 2016
  • 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.