Escape Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 383262670
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Kalamazoo, MI, USA
- Phone
- 2699784400
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fire Prevention
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $83,874
- Expenses
- $81,143
- Assets
- $13,128
- Liabilities
- $2,501
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- MICHAEL O MCLEIEER (PRESIDENTTREASURER)
- SCOTT D MAKER (VICE PRESSECDIR)
- BRIAN S STEFL (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Fire safety & protection educ
What it reported doing in 2025
Program services to provide free smoke detectors tofamilies in need of them, and education material tochildren & seniors promoting fire safety, cpr, etc.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 84% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 36
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 36.2%; rating input score 36
- Program expense ratio: 37.4%; rating input score 37
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.3%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.16; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.19; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5.6% per year; rating input score 0; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 36.2% of revenue deployed · 37.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $30K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 37/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.