Mays Mission for the Handicapped Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 710445210
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Heber Springs, AR, USA
- Phone
- 5013627526
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Vocational Rehabilitation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $491,694
- Expenses
- $454,201
- Assets
- $6,431,549
- Liabilities
- $16,700
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SHERRY NIEHAUS (PRESIDENT/EXECUTIVE DIRECT)
Highest reported compensation
- SHERRY NIEHAUS (PRESIDENT/EXECUTIVE DIRECT): $57,455 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Mays mission for the handicapped offers hope to people whom no one else may care about. The mission provides worthwhile employment to handicapped persons from all walks of life and teaches the word of god in accordance with christian ethics and principles. In addition, mays mission sponsors activities for handicapped children; assists disabled adults to find proper housing, transportation, or medical attention; and makes grants to other institutions or organizations to benefit the handicapped, such as hospitals. While mays mission will assist any handicapped individual to the maximum extent possible, the mission is focused on serving those in rural Arkansas and the ozark mountains region, an area that is generally economically depressed and suffers from a relatively high unemployment rate--hence few job opportunities for the disabled. A primary purpose is to help handicapped persons improve their job skills through on-the-job training and, in addition, to create jobs for them.
What it reported doing in 2024
Public education - the organization conducts public awareness campaigns in conjunction with its direct mail fundraising efforts on the potential of citizens with disabilities while calling for specific actions to improve the quality of life for disabled people. Production of the joint activites involves handicapped individuals demonstrating that people with disabilities can be productive members of society, if only given a chance. Mays mission operations can be used as a model for others. The organization also distributes informational materials on disability issues and provides disability information through its web site.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 89% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.4%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 72.1%; rating input score 72
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.47 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.6%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 14.16; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.6%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 70.4% of revenue deployed · 72.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 5 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $328K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $57K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 28/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 27/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 53/100.