The Potter's House Community Develo Pment Empowering Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 201285245
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Jacksonville, FL, USA
- Phone
- 9046950181
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Urban, Community Economic Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $10,724,381
- Expenses
- $10,660,483
- Assets
- $568,848
- Liabilities
- $445,050
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- NARLENE J MCLAUGHLIN (PRESIDENT &)
People named in this filing
- WILLIE B BATTLES (VICE PRESIDE)
- ANGEL N CHATMAN (VICE PRESIDE)
- NARLENE J MCLAUGHLIN (PRESIDENT &)
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
The purpose of the organization is to provide positive community outreach programs and opportunities for all members of the community to achieve their dreams. To establish a platform for all people to use their unique talents and to develop them into positive community leaders.
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization through its soul food bistro provided top notch meals to the citizens of jacksonville, Florida and beyond. The bistro provided extreme price discounts on food served to seniors, military personnel, and civil services workers. The bistro donated food to local schools and low income housing communities, provided free nutritional cooking instructions to all people during the summer, and encouraged seniors to take extra food home after enjoying their meals at the bistro. The bistro provided employment opportunities to all persons willing to work hard including individuals with less education and ex-offenders. The organization believes that employment to all people encourages self-sufficiency and stronger families in our community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 92% 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. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 41
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.4%; rating input score 99
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 20%; rating input score 20; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.6%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.05; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.78; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -14.5% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 99.4% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 1 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $10.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 20/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.