Students with a Goal
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 812016003
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Akron, OH, USA
- Rating
- 50
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $175,017
- Expenses
- $202,457
- Assets
- $95,386
- Liabilities
- $13,342
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Richard Gibson (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Susan Flowers (Board Chair)
- Allen Park (Vice Chair)
- Matthew Guilmette (Treasurer)
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
SWAG is an exceptional Out-of-School Time Academic Mentoring Program located in Akrons Summit Lake Community Center. At SWAG we believe that every student deserves encouragement and support to realize their full potential. Our dedicated team provides students with the resources and tools necessary to achieve their academic goals develop leadership skills and build lasting relationships. Our mission is to cultivate our students God-given potential by instilling in them a sense of purpose that will enable them to become successful leaders in their community.
What it reported doing in 2024
Transportation Fuel and Repairs to the Vans
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 18
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 18.9%; rating input score 19
- Program expense ratio: 16.3%; rating input score 16
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -15.7%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.47; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 17.2%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -19.5% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.1% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 18.9% of revenue deployed · 16.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 6 filed program accomplishments · $33K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 19/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.