Good Cause Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 272837332
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2015
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2015
- Location
- Havre De Grace, MD, USA
- Phone
- 4439873756
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community, Neighborhood Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $39,464
- Expenses
- $25,309
- Assets
- $32,244
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2015. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JESS BOUSA (President)
People named in this filing
- JESS BOUSA (President)
- MICHELLE ANDERSON (BOARD MEMBER)
- JOE HARMS (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2015. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide services to single moms, underprivileged children, teens and others within the community.
What it reported doing in 2015
Mothers with a Mission- Provide and receive support, children interactions, baby showers for new moms. Organize Beauty/Spa day for 150 single moms or wives of deployed military. Coupon classes, exercise classes, etc. Several activities for struggling single moms, free disbursement of clothing, baby items and toys for their children.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 77% for direct work, and 23% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.1%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 98.5%; rating input score 98
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 35.9%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.27; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -9.6% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 61.3% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 63.1% of revenue deployed · 98.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $25K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2012 to 2015
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.