Grassroots Empowerment Project Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 392022805
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2017
- Forms available
- Form 990 2017
- Location
- Madison, WI, USA
- Phone
- 6082283295
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Mental Health Center
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $690,802
- Expenses
- $744,478
- Assets
- $179,063
- Liabilities
- $39,531
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Karen Herro (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Mishelle O'Shasky (Executive Dir.): $40,054 total reported compensation
- Lora Ott (Finance Manager): $22,182 total reported compensation
- william parke-sutherland (Executive Dir.): $16,921 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Creating opportunities for people seeking mental health, recovery, and wellness to exercise power in their lives.
What it reported doing in 2017
State Consumer and Peer Network programs1. Project to develop a reentry peer specialist model, and offer training, to support formerly incarcerated citizens reentering their respective communities2. Statewide Peer Network Development Program for Recovery and Resiliency, in collaboration with WI's other SAMHSA-funded statewide networks, to increase to improve access to and the quality of behavioral health systems, services, treatment, and resiliency / recovery supports.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 75% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The required major-donor schedule is missing or incomplete and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 69
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97.7%; rating input score 98
- Program expense ratio: 90.7%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: $445.64 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 66.4%; rating input score 66; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: No; rating input score 0
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -7.8%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.24; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.22; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.7%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.1% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -29.6% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 97.7% of revenue deployed · 90.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $675K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $40K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 31 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2015 to 2017
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Major donor itemization scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 29/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.