Hope in Transit Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 470927998
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2014
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2014
- Location
- Lakeside, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 3175369278
- Rating
- 48
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Music
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $113,034
- Expenses
- $121,835
- Assets
- $109,548
- Liabilities
- $5,957
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2014. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- David Sprinkle (Exec Director/CEO)
- Lisa Sprinkle (Exec Director/CEO)
- Steven Thiessen (President)
- Pete Kemp (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- David Sprinkle (Exec Director/CEO)
- Lisa Sprinkle (Exec Director/CEO)
- Steven Thiessen (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 2014. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Charitable, religious, education; music education
What it reported doing in 2014
Music Instruction: Traveling Music School: Provided free music education & opportunities to students, primarily Navajo & Apache youth during school and in after-school programs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 60% for direct work, and 40% for grants.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue 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: 8
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 8.1%; rating input score 8
- Program expense ratio: 7.5%; rating input score 7
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -7.8%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.9; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 46.5%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -8.3% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.9% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 8.1% of revenue deployed · 7.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 7 filed program accomplishments · $9K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2010 to 2014
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 8/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 41/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.