Casey Feldman Memorial Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
270877433
IRS 990 coverage
2019–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-PF 2013
Location
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Phone
2152859145
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards

Reported finances

Revenue
$177,135
Expenses
$220,491
Assets
$369,682
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JOEL D FELDMAN (PRESIDENT/DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • JOEL D FELDMAN (PRESIDENT/DIRECTOR): $36,000 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 organization supports charitable, educational and literary pursuits and encourages volunteerism and good citizenship. It also works to make known the dangers of distracted driving and destructive decision making. Organization teams up and partners with charitable organizations, federal, state and local government bodies, schools, businesses and general public for purpose of bringing awareness to parents, teens, nation on the detriments associated with distracted driving and destructive decision making. Programs are in existence. Scholarships are awarded for the benefit of students that encourage community service, volunteerism, good citizenship, call attention to the dangers of distracted driving and decision making.

What it reported doing in 2024

A) kindergarten, lower, middle and high school distracted driving program: the casey feldman memorial foundation, through its campaign/website enddd.org (end distracted driving) continues to provide in person and virtual presentations to lower, middle and high school students, faculty, committees, boards and parents on the dangers of distracted driving. Also, presentations are presented to businesses and general public, in addition to, utilizing tv & radio media coverage to call attention to the dangers of distracted driving.the foundation working with elementary teachers, content developers and experts created distracted driving lesson plans that also include pedestrian safety for the 2nd through 6th grade. The lesson plans are provided to teachers for in class room presentation to their students.program service accomplishments include providing presentations to more than 500,000 students, paper published by us dot(nhtsa) confirming the effectiveness of the presentations, selection and appointment of president to ntsb national distracted driving coalition steering committee and coordination of first national "do not disturb while driving" day october 2022. Also, the foundation maintains and active and changing end distracted driving website (enddd.org) accessable direct through the internet and by way of social media sights.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 93% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 80% for direct work, and 20% for grants.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 87
  • Transparency & Controls: 74
  • Accountability: 79
  • Sustainability: 34
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 93.1%; rating input score 93
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 42.4%; rating input score 42; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -24.5%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.68; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 16.3%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 93.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $205K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $36K · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 23 of 24 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
  • 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 — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 42/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.