Lightning Rod Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 208487212
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2010
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2010, Form 990-N 2010
- Location
- El Segundo, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3106166045
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Energy Resources Conservation and Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,315
- Expenses
- $48,045
- Assets
- $101,540
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2010. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2010. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To identify and work toward solutions to aid the environment through the development of environmentally-friendly technology, such as fuel diversification and alternative domestic energy production. To promote educational campaigns to share information with the public about ways to counteract global warming and greenhouse gas emissions on an individual and global scale, and about global warming solutions through clean energy and alternative methods of transportation.To implement a high school education program.
What it reported doing in 2010
Provided direct education to a minimum of 10,000 people through speaking and interacting with the public, not counting media.
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
- 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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1,975.4%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.11; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- 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 1/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.
- Review — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization could not be resolved against the register, so the check is unfinished.