Volusia County Citizens Dispute Settlement Project Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 592549349
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2020
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2020
- Location
- Deland, FL, USA
- Phone
- 3864927455
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Dispute Resolution, Mediation Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $80,702
- Expenses
- $104,501
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- 32227 (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR THROUGH 6.19.21)
People named in this filing
- DONALD NEEDHAM (DIRECTOR)
- ROBERT BARKER (DIRECTOR)
- JIM BOLLING (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Mediation services to the public
What it reported doing in 2020
State licensed mediators are provided to the citizens in the Florida 7th judicial district for the purpose of freeing up the overall court system. The volusia county citizens dispute settlement project is a volunteer agency dedicated to providing individuals with an alternative means of settling disputes outside of the traditional court system. Recipients are people mostly vunerable in this area that have issues with neighbors, merchants, barking dogs and other disruptive animal problems, landlord-tenant issues, and overzealous debt collectors. In fiscal year 9/30/21, 2,400 telephone inquiries were received. 1,108 mediations were performed. 523 settlements were obtained. There were thirty-two volunteers assisting the mediation's service mission this fiscal year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 72% for direct work, and 28% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 13
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.9%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 72.5%; rating input score 73
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -29.5%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 40.1%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.7% per year; rating input score 0; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -21.2% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 93.9% of revenue deployed · 72.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $76K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2012 to 2020
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.