Mississippi Sids and Infant Safety Alliance

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
640943505
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2023
Forms available
Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2014
Location
Madison, MS, USA
Phone
8774717437
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Alliance/Advocacy Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$6,086
Expenses
$37,160
Assets
$0
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • BRIAN ROACH (PRESIDENT)
  • JEFF FILES (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • CATHY FILES (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • CATHY FILES (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $18,445 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Mississippi sids and infant safety alliance, inc. Provides support services to families who are or may be touched by the tragedy of sudden infant death syndrome, sudden unexplained infant death and any other infant loss. The alliance also provides training and education from current evidence-based practices on sids, suid, and a safe sleep environment to parents, professionals, caregivers, and low socioeconomic communities/individuals, and to the disadvantaged high risk populations. The Mississippi sids and infant alliance also support research to help eliminate sudden infant death.

What it reported doing in 2023

Health fairs: the alliance travels the state and attends health and wellness fairs providing safe sleep literature and interacts with attendees face to face to inform them of safe sleep for babies. The alliance encourages those who either know someone with an infant or grandchild to take the information with them and help raise awareness by word of mouth.bereavement services: the alliance provides help and support to families who have lost an infant to sids/suid or any infant death. The alliance has peer contacts these families can talk to as well as provide grief packets to families that the alliance receives contact information on. The alliance believes it is very important and helpful to reach these families so that they are able to talk to someone who has walked in their shoes. The alliance does not want these families to feel that they are alone in their sorrow and that there is someone there for them. The alliance has been able to provide support to hundreds of families due to the existence of ms sids & infant safety alliance. The alliance has a strong relationship with many of the families who are helped and many of these families volunteer and support the alliance at fundraising events.statewide safe sleep hospital program: through the hospital program, the alliance will meet with birthing hospitals throughout the state advising them on how to implement the cribs for kids safe sleep hospital education program. This program has several certification levels. The hospital will provide safe sleep education to families before they leave the hospital through a video and safe sleep material, develop a safe sleep hospital policy and annual professional safe sleep education. Each hospital that completes the requirements for the cribs for kids hospital recognition will also receive the ms sids & infant safety alliance hospital safe approved seal. This will provide the hospital with a national and state recognition. To date, 4 hospitals have received the ms sids safe sleep seal and many others are working toward that goal.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 94% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 77
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 5
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 60.7%; rating input score 61
  • Fundraising efficiency: $0.07 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • 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: -510.6%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 49.6%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -9.6% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -10.3% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -9.4% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 60.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $23K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $18K · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 17 of 18 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2011 to 2023
  • 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 9/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.