Angels on Wheels Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 470827230
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2010, Form 990-N 2007
- Location
- Omaha, NE, USA
- Phone
- 4029609789
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Personal Social Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,283,667
- Expenses
- $496,117
- Assets
- $2,390,962
- Liabilities
- $829,767
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Brenda Banks (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Frank R Bartlett III (Recycling Director): $55,000 total reported compensation
- Brenda Banks (Executive Director): $47,236 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to empower and equip disadvantaged and under educated men and women through character development, vocational training and job experience so they can attain employment and become financially self sufficient. Our clients are men and women who have experienced challenges such as incarceration, homelessness, emotional or physical abuse, or live in poverty for other reasons. Code 624310
What it reported doing in 2024
We provide our clients with real work experience combined with skills training while recycling electronics, refurbishing computers, dismantling electronics, testing and repairing electronics and customer service opportunities. We train essential workplace soft skills, principles of successful employment, and other essential knowledge-based workplace matters while performing work in this field. Code 423600
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 69% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 52
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 68
- Sustainability: 74
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 36.8%; rating input score 37
- Program expense ratio: 95.2%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 12th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: 61.4%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.82; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.35; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 20.6%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 36.8% of revenue deployed · 95.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $472K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $55K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 27 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 37/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.