Tampa Heights Junior Civic Associat

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
311687961
IRS 990 coverage
2017–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Tampa, FL, USA
Phone
8135383219
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$577,186
Expenses
$651,037
Assets
$1,231,995
Liabilities
$1,074,414

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

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

People named in this filing

  • LENA YOUNG (FOUNDER)
  • Natalie Jackson (Secretary)
  • Michael Dove (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Tampa heights junior civic association is a community based, residentdriven organization that connects youth and families to community resources, provides youth opportunities to build leadership and civic engagement, and secures resources to respond to identified needs

What it reported doing in 2024

THJCA served over 300 youth and children across 8 programs providing leadership and civic engagement training. The organization provided daily community and youth gardening at the Tampa Heights Community Garden, hosting at least two community and social events per month at the garden pavilion. The Youth Garden and Art Wellness program also utilized this space. Additionally, THJCA hosted an average of five community events and meetings per month at the Tampa Heights Community meet-up pavilion in the garden. THJCA supported other organizations, including maintaining a community garden in the Highland Pines neighborhood. As a founding member of the 10-year-old Coalition of Community Gardens (COCG)which now includes 70 community gardens across four Tampa Bay countiesTHJCA helps combat the historical 3-year failure rate of local gardens. The coalition supports garden sustainability and education, emphasizes health benefits for youth and families, and ensures food availability in lower-income and food desert communities. The Tampa Heights Community Center, leased for 30 years from the Florida Department of Transportation, serves as the hub for Tampa Heights events and houses the Tampa Heights civic association, hosting all monthly board and general membership meetings. THJCA also maintained its Northsite facility for a small independent school (grades 1-12) and provided office space for the redevelopment company partnering with the Tampa Housing Authority to reconstruct the Robles Park complex into 2,800 mixed-use residential units. While THJCAs services historically targeted residents of this complex, this along with recent high-end developments and displacement over the past ten years have shifted the population. Displaced youth who previously attended 7 local schools in and around Tampa Heights are now scattered across 37 schools throughout Hillsborough County. Consequently, THJCA has expanded its services county-wide to continue providing wrap-around civic engagement and leadership training for youth and families from age 6 through post-high school. Additionally, THJCA also provided in-school and after-school mentoring in two high schools and one elementary school in north west county and in south-east Hillsborough county, as well as taking 90 high-school students to tour 9 colleges and universities.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 75% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 74
  • Transparency & Controls: 78
  • Accountability: 94
  • Sustainability: 36
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 86.6%; rating input score 87
  • Program expense ratio: 76.7%; rating input score 77
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 86.7%; rating input score 87; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -12.8%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.89; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.87; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -2.1% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 86.6% of revenue deployed · 76.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $500K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 23 of 25 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2017 to 2024
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 14/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D revenue reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Conflict-of-interest policy not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 8/100.