Strengthen Teens and Reach Inner City Vital Environments

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
271122275
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2016, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2015
Location
East Orange, NJ, USA
Phone
9124455043
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Youth Development Programs

Reported finances

Revenue
$129,137
Expenses
$137,808
Assets
$5,451
Liabilities
$6,747

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Ashante Guillaume-Salvant (Director of Partnerships Development)
  • Roseline Shaw (CFO/Program Administrator)
  • Marion Washington (Director of Human Resources)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

STRIVE offers a variety of educacional and vocational programs designated to equip young people with tools they need to develop a successful future. Includes before and after school enrichment and right -track programs.

What it reported doing in 2024

STRIVE offers a variety of educational and vocational programs designated to tailored to the neighborhoods it serves. Each program fosters accountability, independence, and creativity to contribute to a brighter future and has served more than 5,000 students and their families in the greater Newark area over the last decade. We provided 100 book bags to low income at risk students reside in Essex county. Student acceptances into college included: Seaton Hall, Ramapo College, Howard University, Rutgers University, NJIT, University of Pennsylvania, Fordham University and Penn State. Several students are recipients of notable scholarships, they are as follows: Fordham University Dean's Scholarship, and Rutgers HLLC Scholarship, Grinnell Founders Scholarship and one student received full scholarship to play football at Penn State. We covered 7 colleges acceptance fees ranging from $150-375.

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. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 12
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

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

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -6.7%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.04; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.24; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 52.9%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 33.9% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -18.4% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -16.5% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $138K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 16 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.