Striving for Community Progress and Educ
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 933163950
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Durham, NC, USA
- Phone
- 9176285994
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community, Neighborhood Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $97,585
- Expenses
- $98,684
- Assets
- $16,664
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
People named in this filing
- May Lample (Executive Dir.)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
A non-profit organization dedicated to the generation, application and diffusion of knowledge for the betterment of society. We work with youth, families and communities in neighborhoods across North Carolina to identify obstacles to community progress and to develop the capacities required to address them. Our programs seek to enhance the capability of individuals and communities to contribute to meaningful social change that takes into account the spiritual and material dimension of human affairs.
What it reported doing in 2025
A non-profit organization dedicated to the generation, application and diffusion of knowledge for the betterment of society. We work with youth, families and communities in neighborhoods across North Carolina to identify obstacles to community progress and to develop the capacities required to address them. Our programs seek to enhance the capability of individuals and communities to contribute to meaningful social change that takes into account the spiritual and material dimension of human affairs. Many Scholarships were given to Students, Adults, and College Students throughout the year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 64% for direct work, and 36% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.6%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 77.7%; rating input score 78
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.1%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.17; rating input score 17; 17th 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: 126.6% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 36.4% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -22.8% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.6% of revenue deployed · 77.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $77K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.