Charity profile · Historical source record

Futures and Options

Historical collection: May 2019 · Rating details mostly from 2017. Source & context

The mission

What this organization describes

Connecting urban youth to careers.
Founded in 1999, Futures and Options fills a critical need, providing our low-income, minority youth with the training and access they need to compete for jobs. By partnering with New York's business community, Futures and Options opens doors for underserved youth to build meaningful professional careers. We also provide businesses with a trained, educated, and diverse young workforce. Futures and Options offers three key programs: Career Essentials, The Internship Program and The College Guidance Initiative. Futures and Options' mission is to empower New York City's underserved youth to explore careers and to guide them to further their education.

Mission and tagline reproduced from the source record.

Historical scorecard

Three perspectives. One record.

91.28Overall score
out of 100
88.34Financial score
out of 100
96.00Accountability & transparency
out of 100

These are the dataset’s historical numeric fields, not a current rating or a new DonorAPI.com assessment. Read the score context ↗

Financial context

Revenue, expenses, and composition

Total revenue · USD$2,035,898
Total expenses · USD$2,023,222

Program expenses

$1,602,391.82 recorded amount
79.2%

Fundraising expenses

$153,764.87 recorded amount
7.6%

Administrative expenses

$263,018.86 recorded amount
13.0%
Fundraising efficiency
$0.08 spent per $1 raised in donations, as defined in the source.

Expense shares are displayed as percentages. Component amounts in this collection match total expenses multiplied by the source ratios; rounding can leave a small difference from the total. The source does not supply a row-specific fiscal year. Field definitions ↗

Historical leadership record

The leadership information supplied

Recorded leader
Patricia S. Machir
Recorded compensation
$142,103.00
Recorded compensation percentage
7.02%

These fields do not establish the current officeholder or current compensation. The metadata does not specify the denominator of the leader compensation percentage. Read with context ↗

Inspect all 23 original source fields

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All 23 original fields for Futures and Options
Source fieldOriginal source value
ascore
Accountability & transparency score
96.0
category
Category
Human Services
description
Mission & description
Founded in 1999, Futures and Options fills a critical need, providing our low-income, minority youth with the training and access they need to compete for jobs. By partnering with New York's business community, Futures and Options opens doors for underserved youth to build meaningful professional careers. We also provide businesses with a trained, educated, and diverse young workforce. Futures and Options offers three key programs: Career Essentials, The Internship Program and The College Guidance Initiative. Futures and Options' mission is to empower New York City's underserved youth to explore careers and to guide them to further their education.
ein
EIN
13-4063658
tot_exp
Total expenses
2023222.0
admin_exp_p
Administrative expense fraction
0.13
fund_eff
Fundraising efficiency ($ per $1 raised)
0.08
fund_exp_p
Fundraising expense fraction
0.076
program_exp_p
Program expense fraction
0.792
fscore
Financial score
88.34
leader
Recorded leader
Patricia S. Machir
leader_comp
Recorded leader compensation
142103.0
leader_comp_p
Recorded leader compensation fraction
0.0702
motto
Tagline
Connecting urban youth to careers.
name
Charity name
Futures and Options
tot_rev
Total revenue
2035898.0
score
Overall score
91.28
state
State code
NY
subcategory
Subcategory
Youth Development, Shelter, and Crisis Services
size
Source size label
small
program_exp
Program expenses
1602391.824
fund_exp
Fundraising expenses
153764.872
admin_exp
Administrative expenses
263018.86

Source: Charity Navigator Scores Expenses Dataset, version 1, attributed to katyjqian on Kaggle. Collection: May 2019; rating details mostly from 2017. Read attribution, scope, and reuse notes.