Dash and Scout
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 990656460
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Glen Allen, VA, USA
- Phone
- 8046518191
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Developmentally Disabled Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $118,961
- Expenses
- $42,766
- Assets
- $76,832
- Liabilities
- $637
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Carol Estes Williams (President/Director)
- Teresa Lancaster (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Carol Estes Williams (President/Director)
- Sheri Tew (Secretary/Director)
- Ginny Graef (Treasurer/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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Dash and Scout is a special needs collective for adults with Down syndrome and other varying abilities seeking a meaningful, more independent path. The Dash and Scout concept is unique to Virginia and boasts a series of hands-on programs designed to increase their independence. These programs allow adults with intellectual disabilities to come together for overnight multi-day retreats to experience independent living in an environment customized for individual participants. The experience also allows each family to be a partner in ensuring there is a strong focus on individual goals, growth and progress tracking. This, in turn, helps the participants discover how to create a "Life Recipe" for greater independence though day and weekend programs.
What it reported doing in 2024
Dash and Scout designed and executed two pilot programs in 2024: one for women and one for men, all of which had an intellectual disability. We had 8 total participants in the pilot programs. During each weekend participants were given the opportunity to problem solve, make their own decisions and learn how to work as a group. The pilot programs were so successful that six retreat weekends were planned for 2025. The parent survey after each program was used to further develop future weekends and day programs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 42
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 73
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 25.1%; rating input score 25
- Program expense ratio: 69.9%; rating input score 70
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: 64.1%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.8; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 58.5%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 25.1% of revenue deployed · 69.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $30K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.