Jess Ward Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 136141282
- IRS 990-PF coverage
- 2010–2018
- Forms available
- Form 990-PF 2018
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2129446020
- Rating
- 63
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $15,991
- Expenses
- $16,510
Source: IRS Form 990-PF. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Amounts in USD.
Overview
Mission
Jess Ward Foundation is a nonprofit. Location: New York, NY. EIN 136141282. Tax year 2018 Form 990-PF reports $16K revenue and $16.5K expenses.
What it reported funding in 2018
The foundation reported 8 grants totaling $13,489. The stated grant purposes included to further organizations' exempt purposeto further organization's exempt purpose and to further organization's exempt purpose.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Investment-supported. 100% of the foundation's positive operating resources came from recurring investment income.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The foundation distributed 100% of its reported charitable disbursements as grants.
- Includes asset-sale income: Asset-sale income is shown separately from recurring resources when classifying the revenue model.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and the filing identifies who received its grants. The available information about grant readiness automatic revocation leaves an important question unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Grant Deployment: NotEnoughData
- Cost Efficiency: 82
- Transparency: 100
- Compliance: 100
- Endowment Health: 66
Detailed rating inputs
Grant Deployment
- Grant deployment ratio: Limited
Cost Efficiency
- Grant expense ratio: 81.7%; rating input score 82; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency
- Grant recipient disclosure: Yes; rating input score 100
Compliance
- Part VII-B activity disclosures: 18 of 18 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Property sale or exchange with a disqualified person: Pass
- Borrowing from or lending to a disqualified person: Pass
- Goods, services, or facilities involving a disqualified person: Pass
- Compensation paid to a disqualified person: Pass
- Assets transferred to a disqualified person: Pass
- Payment to a government official: Pass
- Uncorrected prior self-dealing: Pass
- Prior-year undistributed income: NotApplicable
- Excess business holdings: Pass
- Investments that may jeopardize charitable purposes: Pass
- Uncorrected prior-year jeopardizing investments: Pass
- Attempt to influence legislation: Pass
- Attempt to influence an election: Pass
- Grants to individuals: Pass
- Grants to organizations: Pass
- Spending for a noncharitable purpose: Pass
- Funds received for a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Premiums paid on a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Prohibited tax-shelter transaction: Pass
- Filing consistency checks: 8; rating input score 100
Endowment Health
- Endowment-health comparison: 19.77; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Grants: 100% of grant recipient detail disclosed
- Trustees: Filed trustees detail
- Self-dealing: 100% of reviewed questions answered “No”
- Investments: 66th percentile for endowment coverage
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2010 to 2018
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 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 — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.