Urban Dove Team Charter School Iii
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 453802187
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Long Island City, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2122442131
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Charter Schools
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,769,114
- Expenses
- $3,572,338
- Assets
- $944,987
- Liabilities
- $1,681,739
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- DEREK JONES (SCHOOL LEADER): $43,399 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Urban dove team charter schools delivers an innovative sports-based, health, and fitness-centered curriculum designed to develop students into healthy, successful adults who are economically, socially, and emotionally independent. Our educational model energizes, educates, and empowers young people within a safe and positive environment grounded in high expectations and shared responsibility. Udtcs serves overaged and under-credited students who face limited educational options and are in critical need of targeted academic support, structured engagement, and positive pathways to success. Urban dove team charter schools are in the four boroughs: midwood neighborhood in brooklyn, melrose neighborhood in the bronx, harlem neighborhood in manhattan and astoria neighborhood in queens.
What it reported doing in 2024
The school opened its doors in the fall of 2012 in the bronx with a rigorous academic program and a highly structured and supportive school culture. While the school is comprised of students from many backgrounds, it is uniquely suited to meet the needs of at-risk students who have been previously disengaged from school.through a sports, health, and fitness curriculum, layered with a career and technical program, the school is expanding its reach to energize, educate and empower youth. The school provided education to approximately 94 students in grades nine through twelve during the 2024-2025 academic year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 89% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 14
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 77.5%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.91 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -29%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.26; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.78; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.2%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 77.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $43K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.