Amenity Aid
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 462347536
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2021, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Warwick, RI, USA
- Phone
- 4018892435
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Housing Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $479,208
- Expenses
- $547,813
- Assets
- $111,031
- Liabilities
- $5,508
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Liz Duggan (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Liz Duggan (Executive Director): $49,634 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Amenity Aids mission is to end hygiene insecurity in Rhode Island by supplying essential hygiene products to individuals and families in need. We do this by supplying social service agencies around the state with hygiene products required for basic hygiene, wellness and dignity.
What it reported doing in 2024
In 2024, Amenity Aid collaborated with over 110 community organizations and dedicated volunteers to distribute 194,196 full-size hygiene products to marginalized communities across Rhode Island. Through its Addressing Hygiene Insecurity in Rhode Island program, Amenity Aid improves the health and well-being of disadvantaged populations by providing essential hygiene products that promote wellness, dignity, and inclusion. The program serves low- to moderate-income individuals, including those who are unemployed, underemployed, unhoused, at-risk veterans, immigrants, refugees, LGBTQIA+ youth, victims of violence, and human trafficking survivors. In 2024, over 104 volunteers donated 5,582 hours of their time to organize, pack and deliver hygiene product donations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 94% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.7%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 76.7%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: $10.81 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 26th 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: -14.3%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.2; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.1%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 44.2% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 32.7% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.8% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.7% of revenue deployed · 76.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $420K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $50K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 31 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 30/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.