911 at Ease International Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 845130619
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Santa Barbara, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8052524682
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Mental Health Treatment F31 Psychiatric, Mental Health Hospital
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $387,928
- Expenses
- $423,069
- Assets
- $647,055
- Liabilities
- $345,510
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JAMES STRETCHBERRY (VICE PRESIDENT)
- WARNER MCGREW (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- TARYN MCGREW (SECRETARY): $75,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
911 at ease international (911aei) exists to support first responders and their families, so they can be at their best to serve their community. 911aei is committed to keeping our first responders strong by providing free, confidential professional counseling services for first responders and their families worldwide.
What it reported doing in 2024
911 at ease international supports first responders and their families. This includes police, fire, sheriff, emergency medical personnel, dispatchers, district attorneys' office and other essential agencies. Support services are free, confidential, and provided through professional, trauma-informed counselors. Services include trauma-informed counseling, spiritual care and chaplaincy, referral services, peer to peer support, as well as critical response.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% 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.
- 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: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 65
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.3%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 74.5%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: $463.53 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 19th 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: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9.1%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.53; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.53; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 17.7%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -9.9% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -36.4% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -22.2% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81.3% of revenue deployed · 74.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 9 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $315K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $75K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 27 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.