The Zones

What it reported doing in 2024

By reaching children at an early age and providing positve activities and encouragement, our club provides a compelling alternative to youth crime, gang memebership, drugs, and other negative influences that affect our youth today. Our programs promote the development of young people by instilling a sense of competence, usefulness, influence and belonging. When this strategy is fully implemented, self-esteem is enhanced and an environment is created which helps our members achieve their full potential. Additionally, our members learn to: enjoy their interests nurture their talents dissolve their prejudices express their personality develop friendships build self esteem contribute to society achieve personal success our club offers five core areas of programming which meet the diverse needs, interests and inclinations of all members. Our trained professional staff incorporates the following themes into daily activities, allowing youth to learn in a fun and educational environment. 1. Character & leadership - empowers youth to support and influence their clubs and community, sustain meaningful relationships with others, develop a positive self image, and respect their own and others cultural identities. 2. Education & career development - enables youth to develop aspirations for the future, apply learning to everyday situations and explore opportunities for career and education enhancement. Part of the education & career development core program is the stem program which incorporates science, technology, engineering and math through the use of 3d printing, coding, robotics, filmmaking and other engineering projects. My.future is also part of the core education program which is a safe, fun, mobile-friendly social platform that provides access to 125 clubs program activities in areas such as stem, leadership and visual arts, and eneables kids and teens to connect and share with their friends while earning recognition and rewards. 3. Health & life skills - develops young peoples capacity to achieve and maintain healthy lifestyles, set personal goals and develop the competencies to live succesfull as self sufficient adults. 4. The arts - helps young people develop self expression and creativity, acquire multicultural appreciation, and enhance skills in crafts, performing and literary arts. 5. Sports, fitness & recreation - encourages youth to develop fitness, positive use of leisure time, skills for stress management, appreciation for the environment and social and interpersonal skills. Learning center - in our learning center, we provide daily homework assistance and tutoring after-school for all of the kids in the program. The center offers power hour homework help among its activities. All members attend the homework assistance sessions on a daily basis. There are computers that are used for homework andeducational games as well. Arts and crafts center the clubs arts & crafts center offers instruction in a wide range of areas. There are painting classes, art contests, craft making, including making pot holders, bookfindings, wind chimes, pine needles, magnets and much more. Game room the game room is the center of attention at the club. This is where the majority of the members spend the majority of their time. The game room offers a pooltable, ping-pong, air hockey, table tennis, bumper pool, and foosball. There are instructional pool classes, tournaments for any and every game, and free time to play any game of the members choice

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 39.5%; rating input score 40
• Program expense ratio: 46.8%; rating input score 47
• Fundraising efficiency: $2.11 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 16th 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: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
  • Whistleblower policy: Fail
  • Document-retention policy: Fail
  • 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: -0.4%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.43; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.38; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 0% per year; rating input score 100; 15th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings