The Collaborative Center for Social Innovation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 883126824
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Lancaster, NY, USA
- Phone
- 8142421746
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $133,508
- Expenses
- $131,665
- Assets
- $80,564
- Liabilities
- $10,881
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MAUREEN HAMMETT (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MAUREEN HAMMETT (PRESIDENT)
- CATHERINE MILLER (VP/TREASURER)
- SARAH JENSEN (SECRETARY)
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
Empower youth to better our community by fostering empathy & instilling a sense of purpose and belonging.
What it reported doing in 2024
The collaborative center operated year-round experiential learning programs serving high school students from across erie county, including historically underserved communities. Through the innovation intensive summer program and academic-year cohorts, students engaged in hands-on projects addressing community issues such as health equity, environmental justice, and local economic development. Over 200 students participated, with 97% reporting increased purpose and belonging, and 98% demonstrating measurable gains in collaboration, communication, and critical thinking. Students completed 6 public-facing community projects, including a community needs assessment and public arts installation.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 77% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 82% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.8%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 73.8%; rating input score 74
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.4%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.61; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 34.2%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 67.3% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 21.3% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.3% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72.8% of revenue deployed · 73.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $97K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.