Big Medicine Nfp

Overview

Mission

The mssion of big medicine, nfp is to promote sustainability and green economics education by operating a thrift shop as a funding source. When the general public donates and buys resale items they are participating in greatly slowing down the environmental degradation that is the result of resource extraction including mining, logging, and harmful pesticides used in toxic conventional productionof cotton, etc. Landfill and incineration are also greatly reduced when many of our donors who may have procrastinated and missed being able to get on the schedule of the bigger thrift resale companies, are able to call us for a quick response instead of haul off services, whichare also very environmentally unsustainable and ecologically destructive. People in a bind on time are ofter more than half of our donors - it is the who and the why of how we came to exist, because of our ability to be nimble and flexible to accomodatetheir pickup requests.

Operating model

Revenue model

Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.

Distribution model

Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% 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

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 a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

• Financial Efficiency: 34
• Transparency & Controls: 84
• Accountability: 94
• Sustainability: 45
• Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Details

• Where the money goes: 37.2% of revenue deployed · 40.9% of spending went to programs
• Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
• Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $252K in reported program spending
• Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
• Consistency: 26 of 27 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
• Schedules: 5 filed schedules
• Filing history: 9 filing years from 2014 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.

• Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 37/100.
• Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 41/100.
• High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
• Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
• Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
• Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
• Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.