Church League for Patriotic Service Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 136174480
- IRS 990-PF coverage
- 2013–2017
- Forms available
- Form 990-PF 2017
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2123150988
- Rating
- 55
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $48,411
- Expenses
- $36,086
Source: IRS Form 990-PF. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Amounts in USD.
Overview
Mission
Christianity
What it reported funding in 2017
The foundation reported 5 filed grant rows totaling $10,500. The stated grant purposes included service and aide to support veterans, service and aide to interfaith chapel, and service and aide in the area of raising service dogs for wounded war veterans, plus 2 other reported purposes.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Investment-supported. 66% of the foundation's positive operating resources came from recurring investment income.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The foundation combined direct charitable work with grants to other organizations or people.
- Includes asset-sale income: Asset-sale income is shown separately from recurring resources when classifying the revenue model.
The verdict
MIXED - The filing identifies who received its grants and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of spending goes to grants and the filing reports one or more activities that warrant closer review.
Rating breakdown
- Grant Deployment: NotEnoughData
- Cost Efficiency: 29
- Transparency: 100
- Compliance: 98
- Endowment Health: 93
Detailed rating inputs
Grant Deployment
- Grant deployment ratio: Limited
Cost Efficiency
- Grant expense ratio: 29.1%; rating input score 29; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency
- Grant recipient disclosure: Yes; rating input score 100
Compliance
- Foundation activity disclosures: 18 of 19 controls in place; rating input score 95
- Property sale or exchange with a disqualified person: Pass
- Borrowing from or lending to a disqualified person: Pass
- Goods, services, or facilities involving a disqualified person: Pass
- Compensation paid to a disqualified person: Fail
- Assets transferred to a disqualified person: Pass
- Payment to a government official: Pass
- Uncorrected prior self-dealing: Pass
- Prior-year undistributed income: Pass
- Excess business holdings: Pass
- Investments that may jeopardize charitable purposes: Pass
- Uncorrected prior-year jeopardizing investments: Pass
- Attempt to influence legislation: Pass
- Attempt to influence an election: Pass
- Individual grants for travel, study or similar purposes: Pass
- Grants outside qualifying charitable organization categories: Pass
- Spending for a noncharitable purpose: Pass
- Funds received for a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Premiums paid on a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Prohibited tax-shelter transaction: Pass
- Filing consistency checks: 8; rating input score 100
Endowment Health
- Endowment-health comparison: 47.28; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Grants: 100% of grant recipient detail disclosed
- Trustees: Filed trustees detail
- Self-dealing: 100% of reviewed questions answered “No”
- Investments: 93th percentile for endowment coverage
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2013 to 2017
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 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 — Cost Efficiency: Grant expense ratio scored 29/100.
- Review — Compliance: Foundation activity disclosures: Compensation paid to a disqualified person not reported.