Fuel Incorporated
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 844007797
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Fort Washington, MD, USA
- Phone
- 3014403207
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $30,835
- Expenses
- $29,679
- Assets
- $3,383
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BERNARD COLLINS (President)
People named in this filing
- BERNARD COLLINS (President)
- DARCEL COLLINS (Chairman)
- BARBARA BUTLER (Member)
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
Provide mentoring and scholarships for at-risk youth
What it reported doing in 2025
Scholarship Program
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 and program spending has grown recently. 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: 54
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 55.6%; rating input score 56
- Program expense ratio: 50.6%; rating input score 51
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.7%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.11; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17.9% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 29.3% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 41% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 55.6% of revenue deployed · 50.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $15K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 56/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 51/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.