Mission for Miracles
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 463215950
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Waynesburg, PA, USA
- Phone
- 7242554099
- Rating
- 57
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $174,330
- Expenses
- $176,733
- Assets
- $33,492
- Liabilities
- $2,538
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOHN A THROCKMORTON (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- MEG K THROCKMORTON (BOARD MEMBER): $7,500 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Mission for miracles exists to provide financial support to spinal cord injury and brain health medical facilities and organizations and to educate and raise awareness of the disabled and disadvantaged to the general public.
What it reported doing in 2024
An entertainment event presented in conjunction with West Virginia university children's medicine and operation welcome home (veteran's support non-profit)(EIN: 46-1452037). The event includes music, food, drink and gaming activities. All gaming licensing for the event is managed by operation welcome home and through the state of wv. Mission for miracles receives a portion of the event proceeds and gets reimbursed for expenses occured by the event for helping with the management of the event.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 91% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 48% for direct work, and 52% for grants.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 85
- Accountability: 16
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.1%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 69.2%; rating input score 69
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 87.7%; rating input score 88; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.4%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.19; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.2%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.8% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 70.1% of revenue deployed · 69.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 3 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $122K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $8K · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 23 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes grants
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 34/100.