A Better Day Foundation LLC
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 853431380
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2022
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Houston, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8337472227
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,200
- Expenses
- $9,590
- Assets
- $3,444
- Liabilities
- $600
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- Dreux A Lawes (Founder Chairman)
- Troy A Moore (Board Member)
- Jessica McDaniel (Community Relations 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. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
A Better Day Foundations mission is to provide support resources and aid to homeless individuals individuals affected by natural LGBTQ+ community and individuals who have been diagnosed and who deal with a confirmed mental illness.
What it reported doing in 2022
This was our "State of Me State of Mind Mental Health Conference hosted October 2 2022 at the Hyatt Hotel Houston West. Expenses included the room rental breakfast catering setup cleanup and for all marketing and promotional materials. This was a free seminar open to the public which provided free continental breakfast for all volunteers and participants. The seminar included a guest licensed clinical psychotherapist from Baltimore MD who specializes in working with individuals with a mental illness and behavorial issues.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 72
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 33.5%; rating input score 33
- Fundraising efficiency: $18 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 80%; rating input score 80; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -199.7%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.36; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.17; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 33.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $3K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 34 of 41 current checks pass · 7 findings to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 33/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX Advertising column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX CompCurrentOfficersDirectors column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX GrantsToDomesticIndividuals column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX InformationTechnology column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX OfficeExpenses column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.