Studer Community Institute Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 475657008
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2020
- Location
- Pensacola, FL, USA
- Phone
- 8506962414
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Research Institutes and Public Policy Analysis
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $998,097
- Expenses
- $818,194
- Assets
- $460,982
- Liabilities
- $149,170
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- QUINT STUDER (CEO)
- KATHLEEN BALLARD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- KATHLEEN BALLARD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $101,203 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The studer community institute, inc. Is dedicated to helping people understand and improve their community's quality of life. Our goal is to create a nonpartisan process that allows citizens to identify the critical issues needed to be addressed and to move forward. These issues include education, the economy, government, environment, health, culture, and entrepreneurship. The institute is a local source for research, education, and the use of dashboards to help build a better pensacola metropolitan area. The studer community institute is focused on improving our community's quality of life. We do that by focusing on skill building for employees and businesses and creating tools and interventions to help parents understand the power and importance of early brain development.
What it reported doing in 2024
Building jobs - in job creation and development, the institute provides leadership development training and sponsors workshops geared to help businesses and not-for-profits strengthen their organizations. Outreach programs include a lecture series, symposiums and town hall meetings. Our trainings offer important skill-building opportunities for small and medium-sized businesses, nonprofits and entrepreneurs. With more skills, business owners and employees in turn create better-run organizations that are better positioned to thrive, create more jobs, and support a stronger community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 88% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74.8%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 89.4%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 18%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.56; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.32; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.4%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 74.8% of revenue deployed · 89.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $732K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $101K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2016 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 29/100.