Mississippi Sheriffs Assoc Inc

Overview

Mission

The association was formed for the following purposes:1) to encourage and promote fair and efficient administration of criminal justice throughout Mississippi.2) to provide for the prompt exchange of information pertaining to the duties, methods and official practices of the members of the association, and to furnish advance notice concerning all matters which may violate state and federal laws or threaten injury to persons or property.3) to cooperate with public and private organization dedicated to the reduction of crime and improvement of law enforcement.4) to form and perpetuate an efficient organization of sheriffs, law enforcement, and other criminal justice agencies.5) to strive for the enactment of laws pertaining to the right of a sheriff to succeed himself or herself in office, to advocate sufficiently large budgets to provide all sheriffs with necessary crime detection and police equipment, workers' compensation insurance, liability insurance for property damage, automobile

Operating model

Revenue model

Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.

Distribution model

Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

MIXED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

• Financial Efficiency: 65
• Transparency & Controls: 79
• Accountability: 0
• Sustainability: 55
• Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Details

• Where the money goes: 65.7% of revenue deployed · 85.2% of spending went to programs
• Governance: 0 of 9 board members independent · 0 of 7 filing controls reported
• Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $169K in reported program spending
• Leadership: top reported pay $25K · 9 people listed
• Consistency: 16 of 17 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
• Schedules: 1 filed schedules
• 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
• High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 6 not reported.
• Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
• High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
• Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
• High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.