Three Gees Workshop Corp C/o Lewis Bernstein

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
922809007
IRS 990 coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Bronx, NY, USA
Phone
9175439082
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Educational Services and Schools - Other

Reported finances

Revenue
$56,870
Expenses
$101,421
Assets
$91,971
Liabilities
$1,382

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

People named in this filing

  • DR LEWIS BERNSTEIN (OFFICER/DIRE)
  • LAURA CARSTENSEN (DIRECTOR)
  • HENRY JACOBS (DIRECTOR)

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 is to build connections and relationships across three generations of americans - elders, young adults, and very young children- to help each generation discover they have purpose, they are not alone, they have skills to communicate, collaborate, be caring and creative, all leading to improved emotional well-being, learning and insight, the lessening of loneliness and inspiring empathy and kindness.

What it reported doing in 2025

Founded by alumni of sesame workshop sesame 3g is an intergenerational initiative, working through community-based organizations to address the crisis of mental wellness, loneliness, isolation, and the age rift in our society. We bring together three generations (older adults, young adults and young children) in mentoring triads. Older adults mentor (and learn from) teens, teens mentor preschoolers (and reconnect to their own creativity), and young children gain skills through the undivided joyous attention of older and younger adults. All gain, as measured by outside researchers at stanford university. We are developing a unique turnkey program that our partners - united neighborhood houses in New York at manhattan, brooklyn and the bronx; in los angeles (with the mayor's office early childhood education cogenerational connection program); with Colorado state university in fort collins, and soon in denver, New Jersey, Arizona, and elsewhere. Our partners have rolled out our program repeatedly, institutionalizing its use with their participants. We are now developing our technology and infrastructure to expand our program further throughout the nation

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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 revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 87
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 56
  • Sustainability: 26
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 94%; rating input score 94
  • 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: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 75%; rating input score 75; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
    • 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: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -78.3%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.91; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 107.1% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -97.5% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -38.1% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 94% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 6 of 8 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $95K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 19 of 19 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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.

  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.