Dogwood Literacy Council
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 581930325
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Siloam Springs, AR, USA
- Phone
- 4795244009
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $80,598
- Expenses
- $70,946
- Assets
- $79,800
- Liabilities
- $2,030
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
People named in this filing
- CHARLIE MUESSEMEYER (EXECUTIVE DI)
- SHANNON HARRISON (VICE CHAIRPE)
- TRISHA LYNN (CHAIRPERSON)
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
Our mission is to provide free instruction in speaking, reading, and writing in english and to enable students to cope with the demands of everyday life and enhancing their roles within the community.
What it reported doing in 2024
Our program has 30-40 volunteers working with 80-130 students to improve literacy education. Literacy is broadly used. We also focus on financial health literacy.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76.6%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 87%; rating input score 87
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: 12%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.12; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 42.3%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.4% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 76.6% of revenue deployed · 87% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $62K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.