The Academy for Scholastic and Personal Success
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 454289211
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2023
- Location
- Cedar Rapids, IA, USA
- Phone
- 3193894644
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $621,872
- Expenses
- $190,670
- Assets
- $490,384
- Liabilities
- $1,000
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRATHWAITE ALLAHNA (PRESIDENT)
- COLLIER HEMIE (VICE PRESIDENT)
- WHITE DR RUTH (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- WHITE DR RUTH (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $25,000 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 organization known as "the academy for scholastic and personal success" seeks to educate, teach, mentor and support children of color in educational formats for the development of youth cultural and educational activties supported by charitable efforts within surrounding communities.
What it reported doing in 2024
African american awareness program (aap) and expansion program: october to may annual programs for third through eigth graders to encourage academic and leadership skills. Participation varies annually by program seeks to impact up to 50 students.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 87% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 33
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 78
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 20.1%; rating input score 20
- Program expense ratio: 64.9%; rating input score 65
- 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: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- 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: 69.3%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.57; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.1%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 22.3% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 26.4% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 20.1% of revenue deployed · 64.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $124K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $25K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- 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 20/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 27/100.