Washington Park Citizens Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 050380961
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Providence, RI, USA
- Phone
- 4014616650
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Neighborhood Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,117,755
- Expenses
- $705,557
- Assets
- $6,550,216
- Liabilities
- $160,300
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CYNTHIA SPRINGER (PRESIDENT)
- FRANCES MURPHY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- FRANCES MURPHY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $58,135 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Washington park citizens association, inc. (the organization) is a nonprofit organization incorporated in the state of Rhode Island in 1969. The organization operates Washington park community center, which provides childcare programs for youth under the age of thirteen, as well as social services for neighborhood residents over eighteen who reside in the Washington park area of providence, Rhode Island. The organization is supported primarily through state government grants and contracts, and program fees.
What it reported doing in 2024
The Washington park community center, a multipurpose human service agency, offers a variety of programs and social services to the local community. Our licensed childcare programs include infant/toddler daycare, pre-school, and before & after school programs. These are year round programs, providing a nurturing and educational environment for children who need care while their parents are at work. Our before & after school program serves children 5 to 12 after school each day, as well as programs and summer camps to cover the gaps when school is out, so children are safe and monitored always. We provide assistance with homework, as well as reading and math tutorials. Youth are expected to excel at school. Though emphasis is on academics, a variety of group and individual activities are offered.
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 94% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 80
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.8%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 79.5%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 36.9%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 9.28; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.2%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.2% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.6% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.8% of revenue deployed · 79.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $561K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $58K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 29 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 43/100.