Jordan Sterling Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 270359203
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2023
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2023
- Location
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 4802160510
- Rating
- 92
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Support N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $25,000
- Expenses
- $92,137
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ethan Hurley (President)
People named in this filing
- Ethan Hurley (President)
- DIERKS BENTLEY (Director)
- ANDREW HUTCHINSON (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 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Jordan Sterling Foundations mission is to raise funds to support families who have a loved one with cystic fibrosis, to assist organizations that provide organ transplant services and to promote the research and treatment of cystic fibrosis.
What it reported doing in 2023
The Jordan Sterling Foundation entered into a Gift Agreement with the Translational Genomics Research Institute Foundation in 2013 to support the TGen-Sterling Cystic Fibrosis Project - Next Generation CF Patient Detection and Monitoring Tools. The Jordan Sterling Foundation continued to support the Jordan Sterling Foundation Fellowship Program at the Heart-Lung Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in 2023.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
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 revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 9
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 98.1%; rating input score 98
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: -268.5%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.9% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6.4% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -16.9% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 98.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $90K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2015 to 2023
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.