Be the Tool
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472178075
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2020
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2020
- Location
- West St Paul, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6517058072
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Community Foundations
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,101
- Expenses
- $6,975
- Assets
- $204,891
- Liabilities
- $200,000
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- HOWARD NEWTON (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- RODNEY O SCOFIELD (EXEC DIRECTO)
- HOWARD NEWTON (PRESIDENT)
- JEFF SHAW (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Be the tools mission is to provide opportunities for adults to share the love of jesus christ in a tangible, hands-on way by coordinating service/mission trips to areas affected by natural disaster, economic oppression, or other need.
What it reported doing in 2020
Coordinating service/mission trips to areas affected by natural disaster, economic oppression, or other need
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
- 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: 82
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -36.7%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 29.38; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.98; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -16.1% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 33.5% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2015 to 2020
- 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.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.