Aspiring to Serve Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
510488724
IRS 990 coverage
2017–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025
Location
Hagerstown, MD, USA
Phone
2407076521
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$-42,712
Expenses
$5,324
Assets
$1,324,958
Liabilities
$1,051,500

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CHARLOTTE TROUT (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • CHARLOTTE TROUT (PRESIDENT)
  • MARTIN FISHER (VICE PRESIDE)
  • CAROL ANN ROSSMAN (SECRETARY)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Aspiring to serve creates hope by providing high quality low cost space in partnership with other non-profit community service organizations so that they can better serve those in the community that are in need.

What it reported doing in 2025

Aspiring to serve is a Maryland non-profit organization that manages, directs and supervises the renovation and leasing of a building adjacent to christ's reformed church located at 130 west franklin street, hagerstown, md. Aspiring to serve, inc.'s mission is to lease space at or below market rates to other 501(c)(3) non-profit social service organizations so they can serve those individuals who are in need.

Operating model

Revenue model
No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
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.

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: 34
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 76
  • Sustainability: 44
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: 45.5%; rating input score 45
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • 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: -112.5%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 248.87; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.79; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -8.7% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -24.4% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 0.6% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 45.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 15 of 15 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 45/100.
  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.