Celebrate Overcoming
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 822686649
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Knoxville, TN, USA
- Phone
- 8652643970
- Rating
- 94
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hot Line, Crisis Intervention Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $123,250
- Expenses
- $111,001
- Assets
- $17,637
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOHN PLATILLERO (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- CLIFF HORNE (DIRECTOR)
- JOHN PLATILLERO (PRESIDENT)
- MAURIE DOUGLAS (SECRETARY/TREASURER)
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
Celebrate Overcoming's mission is to share the stories of people who have faced and overcome significant and sudden life challenges so that others in similar situations will be inspired and supported to press on.
What it reported doing in 2024
Celebrate Overcoming produces events and distributes books and music that tell the stories of "Overcomers and inspire hope.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.1%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.9%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.16; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 36.9% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 55.8% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 106.2% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 90.1% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $111K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.