Character Counts Mid Shore Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 010568122
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2019
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2019
- Location
- Easton, MD, USA
- Phone
- 4108190386
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Student Services, Organizations of Students
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $126,902
- Expenses
- $134,367
- Assets
- $84,981
- Liabilities
- $12,955
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2019. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RICHARD M POTTER JR (BOARD PRESIDENT)
- LAUREN WEBER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- RICHARD M POTTER JR (BOARD PRESIDENT)
- TOM K ARNOLD (TREASURER)
- SUSAN E ANGEL (BOARD SECRETARY)
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 2019. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To invest in youth through character education, brighten student futures, engage citizens of all ages, and sustain desirable communities.
What it reported doing in 2019
To provide community leadership for the development of character education to schools, churches, businesses, athletic leagues and other community groups.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 63% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 58
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 59.5%; rating input score 60
- Program expense ratio: 56.2%; rating input score 56
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5.9%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.63; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 49.5%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.3% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 59.5% of revenue deployed · 56.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $76K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2012 to 2019
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.