The Community Learning Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 593521809
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Clearwater, FL, USA
- Phone
- 7274414444
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community, Neighborhood Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,099,545
- Expenses
- $1,019,872
- Assets
- $434,193
- Liabilities
- $11,473
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jennifer Hansen (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Jennifer Hansen (CEO): $64,000 total reported compensation
- Kristen Harper (Registered Agent): $48,100 total reported compensation
- Karey Gilger-Hamilton (Assistant Director): $24,793 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 Mission is to improve the lives of families through education, to inspire youth by making academics fun and relevant, to provide youth with character and drug education, knowledge of human rights, and life skills so they are well educated and can make competent and informed decisions in life.
What it reported doing in 2024
The Center fundraisers that are held assist in making this program a success.Community Learning Center also offers affordable K-8th Grade private school education with an aftercare program. The private school accepts both self-pay students and students who utilize scholarship programs through Step Up For Students.This is a state-approved nonprofit scholarship funding organization that helps administer four scholarships for Florida schoolchildren the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program FTC for lower to middle income families, the Family Empowerment ScholarshipFES for lower to middle income families and students with unique abilities formerly Gardiner and, the Hope Scholarship for public school students who are bullied or victims of violence.Community Learning Center serviced
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 91% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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. 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: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74.1%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 79.8%; rating input score 80
- 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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.2%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.43; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.4%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 22.2% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 20.9% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.9% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 74.1% of revenue deployed · 79.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $774K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $64K · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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: 4 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 27/100.