Ethos Solutions Philanthropic
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 923997147
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Flourtown, PA, USA
- Phone
- 2155007608
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Disaster Preparedness and Relief Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $379,625
- Expenses
- $265,368
- Assets
- $195,890
- Liabilities
- $11,668
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ROBERT T BRYAN (PRESIDENT)
- TIMOTHY RAPINE (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ROBERT T BRYAN (PRESIDENT)
- TIMOTHY RAPINE (VICE PRESIDENT)
- MIKE KENNEDY (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Ethos solutions philanthropic (esp) is dedicated to improving health and wellness among the most underserved populations of the world by providing charitable humanitarian assistance, health educational programs, and compassionate medical services.
What it reported doing in 2024
Esp had a productive inaugural year providing educational, humanitarian, and research support to conflict zones around the world, most notably ukraine. In collaboration with partners, esp created remote educational content that materially decreased mortality, while broadening conflict medical resources, in support of ukraine. In addition to online educational content, esp deployed in support of ukrainian first responders and clinicians, providing advanced medical training, stabilization care, and health logistics to those in need. Esp has trained hundreds of medical first reponders in evidenced based conflict medical care. The esp train-the trainer model assures that funds and resources are deployed in a strategically sustainable manner to produce an effort-multiplier impact. Esps research was briefed to world medical leaders in brussels, ussocom, and at the nato medical lessons learned conference in budapest, guiding global resource allocation by educating global leaders regarding the realities of modern large scale attrition warfare. Esps research and educational leadership has garnered global attention by illuminating ground truth and the uncomfortable realities of modern large-scale combat operations (lsco) on health infrastructure, training, and resources.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 84% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 64
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 66.1%; rating input score 66
- Program expense ratio: 93.9%; rating input score 94
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 0%; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 30.1%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.74; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 53.3% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 60.5% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 87.6% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 66.1% of revenue deployed · 93.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $249K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 22 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.