United Community Centers Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 111950787
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2023
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, USA
- Phone
- 7186497979
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Neighborhood Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,124,637
- Expenses
- $3,698,859
- Assets
- $4,364,010
- Liabilities
- $1,063,349
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
People named in this filing
- KIM BYLANDER (MEMBER)
- SARITA DAFTARY-STEEL (BOARD CHAIR)
- ANITA FAULDING (MEMBER)
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 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
United community centers (ucc) is a social justice driven community center that has been wotking with residents in the east New York (eny) neighborhood of brooklyn for over 60 years. Our mission is to work together with residents of all ages and cultures to address our community's challenges, celebrate it strengths, and provide services that improve lives. We have organized and advocated for child care, environmental justice, reproductive justice, imigration, transportation, affordable housing, and food justice.
What it reported doing in 2023
Ucc early learning center creates a learning environment that represents the diversity of our city, in which children learn to live with one another and begin to develop an understanding of themselves and of their world. We serve 60 preschoolers, ages 2 to 5 years with school day and extended day licensed child care and nutritious meals. We design exciting and cultural authentic learning environments, use standards-based instructional strategies and assessment tools. We focus intensively on the child's individual needs while incorporating a balance of child-centered and teacher-directed instruction presented in a range of environments including large and small groups, dyads, and one-to-one teaching. This provides children with the tools they need to be ready to learn and be successful as they transition to the kindergarten environment.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 85% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 85.2%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -18.4%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.18; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.24; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.9% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.3% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 85.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $3.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2023
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 41/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.