Best in the West Cookers
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 454891780
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Texas City, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8328659555
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $80,458
- Expenses
- $75,799
- Assets
- $49,332
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Albert Wostal (President)
- Bobby Mathis (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Harrold Silberson (Secretary)
- THOMAS PAYNE (Treasurer)
- Albert Wostal (President)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To prepare meals and to raise funds for charitable organizations and those in need
What it reported doing in 2024
The Best in the West Cookers had a great year in 2024. Sponsors and the general public came out to support and participate in the events that were available within our community. Once again we were able to make our normal donations to various organizations. Listed below are the few we were able to provide our support to.The Galveston County Fair & Rodeo - The purpose is to serve the youth of Galveston County by promoting youth, education, and agriculture by supporting 4-H and FFA programs. We support this event to help raise money for youth of Galveston County. While the BBQ event did not take place the FFA youth held Virtual auctions and Animal Showings.Galveston County Fair & Rodeo Scholarships- We still made significant donations to the Scholarship program that enabled four FFA & 4-H members to benefit from this.Galveston County Fair & Rodeo Animal Commitment: Purchased one each (Pig, Goat, Chicken, Turkey) for various youths whose livestock did not make the regular auction at the GCF&R. Paid to have the animal processed and then Donated the meat to Various Charitable organizations within Galveston County.Galveston County Fair & Rodeo AG Mechanics- Donated to this program that enables youth to generate and work on future Mechanical innovations in the agriculture world.Galveston County Fair & Rodeo Special Needs Kids Day- Participated in the annual event by providing a hot lunch for the kids from Galveston County that were able to attend. This event was held at the Galveston County Fairgrounds.Brazoria County FFA: Participated in this Annual event where there was cook-offs and donations made to the Alvin FFA organization.Bayou-Fest Cook-off The Bayou-Fest Cook is a Galveston County Chamber of Commerce Nonprofit event that we participated in.Fall on the Frio (Concan) This years festival was a fund raiser for Texas Game Warden Department in South Texas.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 69% for direct work, and 31% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.5%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 75.8%; rating input score 76
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.8%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.65; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -6.8% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.4% per year; rating input score 0; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.8% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 71.5% of revenue deployed · 75.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $57K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.