Daily Needs Assistance
Legal name: Daily Needs Assistance Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 454000871
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2016
- Location
- Plain City, OH, USA
- Phone
- 6142645591
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,419,234
- Expenses
- $1,847,278
- Assets
- $446,356
- Liabilities
- $1,955
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Tamara Reed (Executive Dir): $62,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Founded in 2010, we aim to impart vision and hope into the lives of the people we meet and to partner in friendship with them as we walk together towards Christ. Why is it called the "Remembered Child" Christmas Store? For many families, the holiday season can be hard to provide their children with gifts when meeting basic needs is already a challenge. This store is here for the kids who would otherwise go without any gifts, for the parents who want their children to experience joy instead of hardship. Volunteer Image. Approximately 20% of the student population in the Jonathan Alder school district consists of students from immigrant families, many of whom are people we serve. The need for learning English as a Second Language helps equip those families to navigate their new home. Learn more Volunteer.
What it reported doing in 2024
Operated a food pantry to provide meals for individuals and families
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 98
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 21
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 97.4%; rating input score 97
- Fundraising efficiency: $273.22 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 16th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -30.2%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.24; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.4%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 32.6% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 20.2% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 28% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 97.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $62K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 23 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.