Future Borders Coalition
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 850781357
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2023
- Location
- Lansing, MI, USA
- Phone
- 5173749100
- Rating
- 60
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $277,435
- Expenses
- $290,757
- Assets
- $12,730
- Liabilities
- $21,910
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- LAURA DAWSON (EXEC DIR): $90,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To operate exclusively for the promotion of the efficient and secure movement of people and goods across and into the United States-Canada border; educating the public and policymakers and supporting public policies on the federal, state, and local levels, that will bring about responsible and legitimate improvements to the United States-Canada border; supporting activities to improve the advancement of a number of initiatives to help achieve the vision of a border that is seamless, predictable, secure, and integrated; and receiving and administering money to sponsor or conduct research, secure goods and services, or engage in other activities consistent with these purposes.
What it reported doing in 2024
Organize and sponsor policy webinars, roundtables, forums, and other presentations focusing on U.S./Canada border preclearance, natural resources supply chain, digital border technologies, accessibility of border transportation, border logistics during intra-continental sporting events and related topics
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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 55
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 16
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.7%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 74.1%; rating input score 74
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- 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: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.8%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.04; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.72; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 31%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 22.1% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -101.1% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 77.7% of revenue deployed · 74.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $90K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.