Miles4migrants
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 813844393
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- New Orleans, LA, USA
- Phone
- 6172908179
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Migration, Refugee Issues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,544,441
- Expenses
- $2,100,463
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $41,238
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GLAYDON DE FREITAS FILHO (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (01-24 - 08-24))
- KATHERINE CLARK (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (08-24 - 12-24))
Highest reported compensation
- GLAYDON DE FREITAS FILHO (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (01-24 - 08-24)): $116,143 total reported compensation
- KATHERINE CLARK (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (08-24 - 12-24)): $95,057 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Use donated frequent flyer miles to help people impacted by war, persecution, or disaster start a new beginning in a new home.
What it reported doing in 2024
Through pledges of frequent flyer miles and credit card points, the organization was able to leverage millions of pledged frequent flyer miles and credit card points, along with the funds spent on taxes and fees, to fly refugees and their families to safety, and to their relatives. During 2023, the cash value for these flights, inclusive of taxes and fees, was over $2.36m. For each flight reservation made, miles4migrants determines the lowest cost reasonable itinerary for the number of people requested on the day that we scheduled a flight. We define "reasonable itinerary" as one layover or fewer. We do not use the cost of the exact flight we have booked with points because it would often lead to an inflated cash value since cash prices do not always directly correlate with the award flight cost in miles.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 58% for direct work, and 42% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 48
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 7
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 84.6%; rating input score 85; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: 0%; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -36%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.1%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 19.3% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.5% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -12.2% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $116K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 29 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and grants
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 37/100.