5 Sparrows
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 461147723
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2018
- Forms available
- Form 990 2018, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Fayetteville, NC, USA
- Phone
- 9107582591
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Protection Against Abuse
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $195,005
- Expenses
- $159,911
- Assets
- $49,815
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LISA LONG (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- PETER TWEDELL (EXECUTIVE DI): $41,000 total reported compensation
- LISA LONG (PRESIDENT): $10,657 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
5 sparrows works against human trafficking through direct partnerships with law enforcement and victim services organizations; predominately through the provision of direct services, critical resources, and pathways for healing and restoration to human trafficking victims. This organization conducts six primary sub-missions, which are integrated into three main programs: providing direct services to human trafficking victims and support recovery, assisting law enforcement and justice system, changing the status quo.
What it reported doing in 2018
Change the status quo through prevention and awareness engagements; offer hope to all of those scarred by human trafficking. Specific accomplishments: 1. Provided human trafficking prevention and awareness training to thousands in community (citizens, le, parole/probation officers, ems/medical, social workers, lawyers, soldiers) to increase awareness and enhance individual & organizational response to specific human trafficking situations. 2. Conducted multiple strategic level engagements to support change to status quo(polaris project, fox 50 demand reduction, etc.) 3. Maintained a strong continual public awareness anti-human trafficking campaign through social media and other engagements. Objective: 1. Ensure each citizen recognizes the real indicators of human trafficking and is confident in taking the correct actions to report them. 2. Ensure the community realizes that the local anti-human trafficking team takes the human trafficking problem seriously and works hard to counter it.
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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 61.5%; rating input score 61
- Program expense ratio: 74.9%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: $117.97 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 18%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.31; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 32.3%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 61.5% of revenue deployed · 74.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $120K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $41K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.