Institute for Development Thru Transportation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 823199187
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Lowell, MA, USA
- Phone
- 9783790010
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Transportation Assistance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $14,100
- Expenses
- $35,812
- Assets
- $125,547
- Liabilities
- $5,968
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SURINDER AHLUWALIA (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- SURINDER AHLUWALIA (PRESIDENT)
- DAVID ROMANOFF (TREASURER)
- ABRAHAM GONZALEZ (DIRECTOR)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Implement, create and support innovative and sustainable, community-based transportation services and programs throughout america for seniors, vet erans, disabled, low-income individuals and families, so as to enhance the quality of life, mobility and economic opportunities in our communities. Promote, educate, train, research and policy analysis to better understand senior, disabled, low-income and veteran mobility within country and to develop sustainable community based transportation solutions encompassing safety, mobility and quality of life. To give, advocate, donate, apply for grants, secure subsidies and work in conjunction with other non-profit organizations, state and federal institutions, societies, and foundations to help develop dignified community based sustainable transportation services across our country for the elderly, our veterans, the disabled and low income individuals and families. To work with organizations and individuals to create an effective centralized nati
What it reported doing in 2024
Implement, create and support innovative and sustainable, community-based transportation services and programs throughout america for seniors, vet erans, disabled, low-income individuals and families, so as to enhance the quality of life, mobility and economic opportunities in our communities. Promote, educate, train, research and policy analysis to better understand senior, disabled, low-income and veteran mobility within country and to develop sustainable community based transportation solutions encompassing safety, mobility and quality of life.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 97.2%; rating input score 97
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -154%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.51; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -52.9% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -170.5% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -16.5% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 97.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $35K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.