Summerhill Community Ministries Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
510546775
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Atlanta, GA, USA
Phone
4049644604
Rating
72
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Youth Development Programs
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$599,698
Expenses
$609,629
Assets
$444,947
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JUSTINA DIX (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • DAVID FITZGERALD (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • JUSTINA DIX (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $62,421 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To provide supportive christian environment for inner-city children to be encouraged empowered and equipped with academic social and life skills in order for them to reach their full potential in christ and to impact their communities and families.

What it reported doing in 2025

After-school program: we offer a free after-school enrichment program for elementary and middle school students focusing on fostering a positive supportive environment to be able to achieve academic success build character and develop life skills. Children are picked up from school given a nourishing snack receive homework help and tutoring are engaged in a host of fun learning enrichments supervised for safe outdoor indoor play and transported back home. We concentrate on building literacy by improving reading writing and math skills.

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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 91
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 10
  • Sustainability: 37
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 91.3%; rating input score 91
  • Program expense ratio: 89.8%; rating input score 90
  • Fundraising efficiency: $538.81 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings

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: 0%; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • 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: -1.7%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.73; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 10.2%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 15.2% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 8.5% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -0% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 91.3% of revenue deployed · 89.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 0 of 7 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 6 filed program accomplishments · $548K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $62K · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 42 of 42 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 26/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 37/100.