Inner City Action

Overview

Mission

The Equipping Center serves as a resource center focused on finding solutions to homelessness, hunger, and the lack of education through residential and community outreach programs, guided by the biblical mandate to “Go and make disciples of all nations” (Matthew 28:19-20). A faith-based charitable organization that finds and fills the needs of struggling people from all over the United States. Since 2010 thousands of individuals and families have found hope and healing through the programs that Inner City Action Outreach Center offers. The Center aims to not only meet the immediate needs of communities such as providing food and clothing, but also focuses on the successful transformation of people’s lives. Our mission is to connect broken people to a community of support by offering services that address immediate and long-term needs in the areas of poverty, addiction, and abuse.

Operating model

Revenue model

Donor-supported. 92% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.

Distribution model

Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

• Financial Efficiency: 86
• Transparency & Controls: 92
• Accountability: 6
• Sustainability: 36
• Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Details

• What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
• Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 90.6% of spending went to programs
• Governance: 0 of 6 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
• Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $1.9M in reported program spending
• Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
• Consistency: 25 of 26 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
• Schedules: 3 filed schedules
• Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
• Contacts: How to reach this organization
• Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
• 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.
• Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

• High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
• High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
• High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
• Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
• High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
• High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
• Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 53/100.