Mission Central Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 834082123
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Harrisonburg, VA, USA
- Phone
- 5408208692
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Emergency Assistance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $108,454
- Expenses
- $74,413
- Assets
- $151,373
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Barbara Phillips (President)
People named in this filing
- Barbara Phillips (President)
- Costella Forney (Director)
- Joe Liskey (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Mission Central aims to provide living and medical necessities for children and adults, purchasing items to fill in the gaps that donations can't provide. Children and their families have access to, on average, five 3-hour periods a month, a selection of items like clothing, diapers, and shoes. Larger items, such as hospital beds, walkers, and shower chairs, are available for loan to families.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provide access to adults by loaning or giving "Equipment for Caring", including hospital beds, walkers, shower chairs, etc.
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
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 47
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 70
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 40%; rating input score 40
- Program expense ratio: 58.3%; rating input score 58
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 31.4%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.03; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.5% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 25.3% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 40% of revenue deployed · 58.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $43K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 40/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 58/100.