ECTA Empowering Communities to Transcend Adversity
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 270306919
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2023
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2023
- Location
- Morrison, CO, USA
- Phone
- 3035233125
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Health - General and Rehabilitative N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $655
- Expenses
- $14,232
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ryan Phillips (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Stanley Dyck (Chairman of the Board)
- Janet Black (Secretary)
- Linda Phillips (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Primary Exempt Purpose: To foster holistic health throughout the Himalayan region by training, equipping, & apprenticing dedicated community partners.
What it reported doing in 2023
HIMserve provides basic health training and ambulance services to remote sections of the Darjeeling District of West Bengal, India. Universal access to essential birth services is available for ALL mothers and newborns through one of ECTA's designated ambulances and the Matriyaan program. Emergency Medical Transport is available to previously un-serviced remote regions, 24 hours a day 7 days a week, through 5 additional ambulances. Basic health care training is provided to Community Health Volunteers who pass on essential life saving messages throughout their communities by teaching simple solutions to formerly life threatening problems.
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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 8
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 87.1%; rating input score 87
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2,072.8%; rating input score 1; 1st 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: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 87.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $12K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2023
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.