Crime Stoppers of Sarasota County Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 592919978
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Sarasota, FL, USA
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Crime Prevention
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $133,366
- Expenses
- $83,519
- Assets
- $499,210
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Denny Minano (Vice President)
- Karen M Sellers (President)
People named in this filing
- Linda Kennedy (Director)
- Rebekah Lunsford (Director)
- Joseph Giasone (Director)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To educate the Sarasota public about the Criminal Tip Reward Program to provide the facilities to the receive tips while providing anonymity of tipster and disperse the information to proper law enforcement.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provide rewards to tipsters whose information lead to apprehension of a fugitive solution to a case or recovery of a person or property. For the year 2024 867 credible tips resulted in 21 arrests 46 cases closed apprehension of 58 fugitives recovery of $250,000 in illegal drugs and $36164 in illicit money.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 90% 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 revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 53
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 76
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 45.8%; rating input score 46
- Program expense ratio: 63.8%; rating input score 64
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: 37.4%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.98; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -12.2% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.3% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 45.8% of revenue deployed · 63.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $53K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 46/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.