Buddy Lee Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
263809725
IRS 990-PF coverage
2013–2019
Forms available
Form 990-PF 2019
Location
Metairie, LA, USA
Rating
58
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution

Reported finances

Revenue
$10,500
Expenses
$12,133

Source: IRS Form 990-PF. Selected filing: tax year 2019. Amounts in USD.

Overview

Mission

Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution

What it reported funding in 2019

The foundation reported 1 grant totaling $7,000. The stated grant purpose was housing medical care feeding of animals.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the foundation's positive operating resources came from contributions.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The foundation distributed 95% of its reported charitable disbursements as grants.

The verdict

MIXED - The filing identifies who received its grants and a large share of spending goes to grants. The available information about grant readiness automatic revocation leaves an important question unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Grant Deployment: NotEnoughData
  • Cost Efficiency: 95
  • Transparency: 100
  • Compliance: 50
  • Endowment Health: 93

Detailed rating inputs

Grant Deployment

  • Grant deployment ratio: Limited

Cost Efficiency

  • Grant expense ratio: 94.8%; rating input score 95; 83rd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency

  • Grant recipient disclosure: Yes; rating input score 100

Compliance

  • Part VII-B activity disclosures: Limited
  • Filing consistency checks: 8; rating input score 100

Endowment Health

  • Endowment-health comparison: 43.56; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Grants: 100% of grant recipient detail disclosed
  • Trustees: Filed trustees detail
  • Investments: 93th percentile for endowment coverage
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2013 to 2019
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.