The Ivy Community Center Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
561932352
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Durham, NC, USA
Phone
9194242223
Rating
49
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Children's, Youth Services

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$183,209
Expenses
$156,617
Assets
$1,278,578
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

16 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • TARA FIKES (PRESIDENT)
  • JULIA FAIRLEY (VICE PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • TARA FIKES (PRESIDENT)
  • JULIA FAIRLEY (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • CHELSEA FULMORE (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To maintain and manage the ivy community center to sponsor and promote programs that enhance the quality of life for the durham community

What it reported doing in 2025

The Eurydice Smith Literacy Project implemented a African American History Month Read-in activity at Whitted Primary School in February 2024 and a Women History Read-In activity at Whitted Primary school and Burton Elementary in March 2024. Books donated by ICC were read to students by the corporation members. Teachers Appreciation week gifts bags were also provided to teachers at Whitted Primary School in the Spring of 2024 to thank them for their commitment to educating the communities' children.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 43
  • Transparency & Controls: 74
  • Accountability: 18
  • Sustainability: 73
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 43.7%; rating input score 44
  • Program expense ratio: 51.1%; rating input score 51
  • Fundraising efficiency: $3.32 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 81.8%; rating input score 82; 1st 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: Limited
  • Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 14.5%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 8.16; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -1.9% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -0.9% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 43.7% of revenue deployed · 51.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 3 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $80K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 16 people listed
  • Consistency: 15 of 18 current checks pass · 3 findings to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 44/100.
  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 51/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 14/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Fund balance restriction sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX FeesForServicesOther column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.