Voice Advocacy Center

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
454619431
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2019
Location
Omaha, NE, USA
Phone
4024312574
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Educational Services and Schools - Other

Reported finances

Revenue
$95,307
Expenses
$177,608
Assets
$8,669
Liabilities
$2,707

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Clarice Jackson (Founder and Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Clarice Jackson (Founder and Executive Director)
  • Melissa McDowell (Treasurer)
  • Shantae Carruth King (Chair)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

VOICE Advocacy Center is a 501 c(3) tax-exempt Special Education Advocacy, Dyslexia Screening and Tutoring Center servicing families of children who receive special education services in school and providing screening and tutoring to children, teenagers, and adults who struggle to read, write, and spelling due to dyslexia and/or other reading-related issues.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 97% 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

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 revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 92
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Sustainability: 8
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 80%; rating input score 80

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -86.4%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.05; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.31; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 56.3%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 11.2% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -13% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -16% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 80% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $142K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2020 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.