Great Plains Lions Eye Bank Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
752200851
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2020
Forms available
Form 990 2019, Form 990-EZ 2020
Location
Lubbock, TX, USA
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Eye Diseases, Blindness and Vision Impairments

Reported finances

Revenue
$0
Expenses
$385
Assets
$7,851

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

19 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • LONNIE KIRK (President)

People named in this filing

  • DAVID L MCCARTNEY MD (MEDICAL DIRECTR)
  • SCOTT CRENWELGE (Director)
  • LONNIE KIRK (President)

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 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To harvest cornea tissue donated; process, grade and transplant tissue in patients needing vision restoration; participate in eyebank network to provide tissue to patients in other areas of the country; provide tissue that is unusable for transplant as tissue for research into eye disease

What it reported doing in 2020

Medical service provided to harvest cornea tissue: 106 tissues were recovered for research/training/teaching from 53 donors; 61 corneal transplants were performed locally;

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
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 74
  • Sustainability: 34
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 20.39; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -3.9% per year; rating input score 0; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -5.5% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 19 people listed
  • Consistency: 4 of 5 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.