AMERICAN SEWING GUILD INC Sarasota Gulf Coast Chapter of the American Sewing Guild

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
650891250
IRS 990 coverage
2016–2016
Forms available
Form 990 2016, Form 990-N 2015
Location
Oneco, FL, USA
Phone
5136019410
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$0
Expenses
$0
Assets
$10,849
Liabilities
$10,849

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2016. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Paulette M Braga (President)
  • Barbara Mallek (First Vice President)
  • Mary Jane Fuller (Second Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Paulette M Braga (President)
  • Barbara Mallek (First Vice President)
  • Barbara Van Buren (Treasurer)

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 2016. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Education and Community Service (Charity donations of materials and labor) "Advancing sewing as an art and life skill." Our organization is run by volunteers and we are dedicated to educating the public on the life skill necessary to them by learning how to sew. We feel that this is a learning tool and has been forgotten in the education of our children.

What it reported doing in 2016

Our organization educates children and adults in the art of sewing. This is a skill needed throughout thier lived. We also sew for churches in our area who provide shelter to the homeless as well as veterans and our latest request has been from our local Project Heart for bags for homeless children can use for their few possessions. Some of the charities we contribute our sewing projects to are: Kids Quilts, Give the Kids the World, Paul Newmans Foundation, All Children's Hospital as well as both Manatee and Blake Hospitals. We do not get paid for our services, we donate our time. We do get donations, however not much in monatary donations usually fabric and notions to use for our programs. We have a 4-H Sewing Camp which we run every year for five days and we also participate in the Manatee and Sarasota County Fairs where we teach children sewing basics. Our donations last year were $400.

Operating model

Revenue model
No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 68
  • Accountability: 76
  • Sustainability: 1
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 75%; rating input score 75; 0th 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: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 1; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: Limited

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 39 of 41 current checks pass · 2 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.
  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Series filing activity did not reconcile in the filed values.