Chris Howell Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 811236993
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2019, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Dallas, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2147604818
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $545,964
- Expenses
- $474,689
- Assets
- $38,158
- Liabilities
- $214,039
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Christopher Howell Sr (CEO)
- Dominique Howell (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Dominique Bryant-Howell (PresidentExecutive Director): $58,924 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provides programs to vulnerable communities to address disparities in health wellness & financial literacy. Empower individuals & families to achieve self-sufficiency with skills development knowledge and resources.
What it reported doing in 2024
The Chris Howell Foundations Food Insecurity Program served 1,226 families with a total of 53,646 meals and 64,375 pounds of food during the year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 72% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and a relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 16
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 58.2%; rating input score 58
- Program expense ratio: 66.9%; rating input score 67
- Fundraising efficiency: $27.74 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 67; 67th 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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13.1%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.08; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 5.61; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.4%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.7% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 26.9% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 58.2% of revenue deployed · 66.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 3 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $318K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $59K · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 42 of 43 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 58/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 29/100.