Indiana State Transportation Workers Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 205425023
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Indianapolis, IN, USA
- Phone
- 3176989124
- Rating
- 46
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $24,761
- Expenses
- $58,165
- Assets
- $135,166
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GREGORY L HENNEKE (PRESIDENT (THRU SEPT)/ASST TREASURE)
- CALVIN LEE (VICE PRESIDENT)
- KENNETH FRANKLIN (BOARD MEMBER/PRESIDENT (FROM SEPT))
People named in this filing
- GREGORY L HENNEKE (PRESIDENT (THRU SEPT)/ASST TREASURE)
- CALVIN LEE (VICE PRESIDENT)
- KRISTINE WEDDELL (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The purpose of Indiana state transportation workers foundation, inc. Is to raise funds and provide prompt relief, comfort and assistance to immediate family members of employees of the Indiana department of transportation (indot), including those employees that serve any successor public agencies charged with maintaining public routes of transportation in Indiana, who have been killed or disabled while in performance of their assigned duties on behalf of indot.
What it reported doing in 2025
Hardship program assistancethe purpose hardship program is to provide immediate, short-term monetary assistance to Indiana department of transportation (indot) employees or their immediate family members in the event that they suffer a serious loss as a result of a natural disaster, serious injury or illness, or death. The objective of the monetary assistance provided by the istwf is to help indot employees and their immediate family members continue to have access to the basic essentials of daily life immediately following one or more of the unexpected events . All benefits, except loss of an employee's life in the line of duty, must be applied for using the istwf hardship program aplication process, as outlined below. All applications and monetary distributions will be reviewed and subsequently approved or denied by the hardship committee of the istwf. Twenty-two applications for assistance were approved in 2025.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 84% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending 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: 13
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 15.8%; rating input score 16
- Program expense ratio: 6.7%; rating input score 7
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -134.9%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.32; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 15.8% of revenue deployed · 6.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 16/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 7/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.