Cox Employee Relief Fund Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 203401306
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Atlanta, GA, USA
- Phone
- 6786450000
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Emergency Assistance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,203,246
- Expenses
- $1,209,867
- Assets
- $19,830,203
- Liabilities
- $46,090
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MANDY SCHUCK (PRESIDENT)
- TRISHA VAN OLPHEN (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ADRANA FRANCE (PROJECT MANAGER): $140,107 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
None.
What it reported doing in 2025
The cox employee relief fund, inc. Was organized on september 1, 2005 mainly in response to the needs of hurricane katrina victims, but the fund's purposes are much broader than responding to a single disaster. The fundamental purpose of the fund is to provide monetary and nonmonetary relief to victims of natural disasters, accidents, serious illness, or other emergency events. Benefits are provided principally to victims who are either employees or former employees of cox enterprises, inc. And affiliates (cei) and their family members. To achieve this purpose, the fund collects contributions from cei, its employees, vendors, shareholders, affiliates, and affiliates' employees, as well as the general public. Distributions are made directly to eligible individuals who demonstrate, according to established guidelines, that they have suffered losses as a result of natural disaster, accident, illness, or other emergency that cannot be met by the individuals' own resources or via aid provided by federal, state, and local relief agencies. The fund may also assist in organizing relief efforts, such as distributing supplies collected by the fund or paying for cost of delivering supplies collected by the fund.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 80% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 24
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 91.7%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: 100%; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.6%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 16.39; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.6%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.9% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -11.6% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 91.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 4 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $140K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 33/100.