Urban Learning and Teaching Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 813314763
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2020, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2024550390
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Child Day Care
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $383,216
- Expenses
- $298,393
- Assets
- $119,671
- Liabilities
- $93,049
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- ELANA D MINTZ (EXECUTIVE DI): $70,923 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 adventure squad partners with schools, community organizations, and other nonprofits to create and deliver outdoor learning programs that let students learn by doing and propose solutions to pressing societal problems, including environmental injustice, transportation infrastructure, and inclusion. We engage over 1800 students annually, in mostly title 1 schools across Washington, d.c. We explore public lands and local greenspaces while learning from environmental educators and other local experts, and we learn about local history by hiking through neighborhoods.
What it reported doing in 2024
Urban adventure squad partners with schools, community educators, colleges and universities, other nonprofits, and small businesses to create programs that let students learn by doing and propose solutions to pressing societal problems, including environmental injustices, transportation infrastructure, and inclusion. The center explores public lands and local greenspaces while learning from environmental educators and learning about career paths (e.g., in government, the restaurant industry) by inviting experts to talk to students. Students also learn about local history by hiking through local neighborhoods.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 78
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 60.2%; rating input score 60
- Program expense ratio: 76.9%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: $10.94 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 22.1%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.4; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.78; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 23.8%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 60.2% of revenue deployed · 76.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 9 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $229K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $71K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 42/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.