Dannys Ride

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
852783116
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2021, Form 990-N 2020
Location
Bethlehem, PA, USA
Phone
6103491751
Rating
87
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$993,346
Expenses
$906,801
Assets
$423,268
Liabilities
$76,566

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • NANCY KNOEBEL (PRESIDENT &)

People named in this filing

  • NANCY KNOEBEL (PRESIDENT &)
  • BETSY STOREY-BONO (VICE CHAIR)
  • ALEX POLI (TREASURER)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Danny's ride is a charitable organization that provides rides to individuals living in recovery with substance use disorder. Using uber and lyft, the individuals in recovery who lack access to transportation receive free rides to their recovery services such as outpatient treatment and medication assisted treatment.

What it reported doing in 2024

Rideshare: danny's ride provided 24,346 rides to 2,694 individual riders, covering 222,591 miles to people living in recovery with substance use disorders. 35% of all rides took people to outpatient treatment appointments, 22% were rides for employment and job interviews; 8% for medical appointments; and the remaining 35% included rides to legal meetings, community programming, aa and na meetings, and community volunteering. Key accomplishments include adding six new partners to danny's ride, including an organization in New Jersey, several human service organizations, and a drug and alcohol division of another Pennsylvania county, bringing our total to four counties that contract with danny's ride for their transportation needs that cannot be met with existing local bus service. Providing five times the number of rides in 2024 than we did in 2023; 3.5 times the number of riders and nearly 4 times the number of miles travelled. Broadening awareness and scope of danny's ride throughout Pennsylvania, New Jersey and beyond.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 86% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 86
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 88
  • Sustainability: 48
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 87.9%; rating input score 88
  • Program expense ratio: 96.3%; rating input score 96
  • Fundraising efficiency: $13.89 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 48; 48th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • 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: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 8.7%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.47; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 74.3% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 55.4% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 28.2% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 87.9% of revenue deployed · 96.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $873K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 48/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.