Friends of Sussex County Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
510406605
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
Location
Lincoln, DE, USA
Phone
3024701006
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Housing Expense Reduction Support

Reported finances

Revenue
$113,589
Expenses
$112,076
Assets
$20,301

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • HENRIETTA SAVAGE (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • HENRIETTA SAVAGE (PRESIDENT)
  • CANDACE JOHNSON (SECRETARY)
  • DEREK SAVAGE (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

To assist in the improvement and enhancement of youth, families, individuals and communities which are socially and economically disadvantaged through customized training, emergency assistance, development of positive youth activities and information sharing to promote self-sufficiency.

What it reported doing in 2025

Yeet youth education [: amp:] employment training - this program serves atrisk and lowincome youth and young adults ages 1624 by providing support designed to remove barriers and expand opportunity. Yeet offers academic assistance organized sports and enrichment activities that promote positive engagement and structured jobtraining experiences that prepare participants for longterm success in the workforce. Through a combination of mentorship skillbuilding and supportive services the program helps young people strengthen their educational outcomes develop healthy social connections and transition toward stable employment and selfsufficiency.

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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 70
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 24
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 69.6%; rating input score 70
  • Program expense ratio: 70.6%; rating input score 71

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 1.3%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.18; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 7.5%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 13.1% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 18.4% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 15.9% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 69.6% of revenue deployed · 70.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $79K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.