Mid South Mediation Services
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 621823518
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2009–2018
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2018
- Location
- Hohenwald, TN, USA
- Phone
- 9317960487
- Rating
- 96
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Dispute Resolution, Mediation Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $53,596
- Expenses
- $50,770
- Assets
- $12,107
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Mary Ellen Bowen (Executive Director)
- Joel Kachinsky (President, Director)
People named in this filing
- Mary Ellen Bowen (Executive Director)
- Janelle Clay (Secretary, Director)
- Sandra Dinkins (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 2018. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Work with court and law enforcement agencies to provide face-to-face mediations between victims and offenders at no cost to users.
What it reported doing in 2018
Work with justice system to promote mediated settlements of problems at no cost to the participants.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 79% for direct work, and 21% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 97
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94.7%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
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: 5.3%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.24; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.8%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.5% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.9% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 94.7% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $51K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2009 to 2018
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.