Depart Smart
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 273725464
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2020
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2020, Form 990-N 2011
- Location
- Mound, MN, USA
- Phone
- 9522922725
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Safety Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $-1,217
- Expenses
- $24,481
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SHERYL HILL (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- SHERYL HILL (PRESIDENT)
- MIKE BOWERS (CHAIRMAN)
- AMY SWEDBERG (CHAIR EMERITUS)
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 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To become a world leader in travel safety awareness education to help people identify and avoid risks so they can get help and home to the people they love. We strive to solve the problem of poor consumer travel safety protections and reporting, and travel safety illiteracy.
What it reported doing in 2020
Depart smart effectively dissolved on august 20, 2021.
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.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 9
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 3
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: 24.4%; rating input score 24
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2,111.6%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 20.4%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.2% per year; rating input score 0; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 24.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $6K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2013 to 2020
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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: Program expense ratio scored 24/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.