Buffalo Trail Council Inc Bsa 567
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 750800616
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Midland, TX, USA
- Phone
- 4325707601
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,914,516
- Expenses
- $1,304,604
- Assets
- $2,406,486
- Liabilities
- $606,558
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARK RICHARDSON (PRESIDENT)
- BRUCE BRADY (PAST PRESIDENT)
- DAVID BAKER (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- NATHAN KRAMER (SCOUT EXECUTIVE): $134,422 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission is to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the scout oath and scout law.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization serves more then 700 youth in 18 west Texas counties. The following programs are offered: cub scouts - boys and girls in kindergarten through 5th grades may join a cub scout pack and be assigned to a den usually made up of boys and girls in a neighborhood who form a natural playgroup.boy scouting - available to boys and girls who have earned the arrow of light award or have completed the fifth grade, or who are 11 through 17 years old. The program achieves the boy scouts of america objectives of character development, citizenship training, and personal fitness qualities among youth by focusing on a vigorous program of outdoor activitiesventuring - co-ed youth development opportunity for boys and girls who are 14, and have completed the eighth grade, through 20 years of age. High adventure, hobby, general careers and sea scouting groups belong to venturing.explorers - explorers are young men and women ages 14-20 years who participate in internship-type programs in different career fields. Examples are medical, law enforcement, and fire explorer posts.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 95% 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 a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.4%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 63.9%; rating input score 64
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.12 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
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: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 31.9%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.84; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.25; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.3%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -6.1% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6.1% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 69.4% of revenue deployed · 63.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $834K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $134K · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 9/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 36/100.