National Road Safety Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 136128274
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2128374800
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,252,716
- Expenses
- $1,366,883
- Assets
- $51,681,064
- Liabilities
- $53,139
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOHN MANOCHERIAN (PRESIDENT/TRUSTEE)
- KIMBERLY MANOCHERIAN (VICE PRESIDENT/TRUSTEE)
- CAROLINE M MANOCHERIAN (VICE PRESIDENT/TRUSTEE)
- BEHROOZ SHOKATI (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- MICHELLE ANDERSON (DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS): $100,115 total reported compensation
- BEHROOZ SHOKATI (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $67,369 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The foundation is dedicated to reducing crashes, death and disability on our nation's roads by promoting safe driving habits. It produces documentaries, educational programs and public service broadcasts.
What it reported doing in 2024
National road safety foundation, inc. ("nrsf") produces documentaries, educational programs and public service campaigns for broadcast and for use in safety, educational and enforcement programs. Nrsf offers its material free of charge. More than a million copies of the foundation's films and public service campaigns have been distributed for use in schools and by police, traffic safety agencies, healthcare professionals, youth advocacy groups and other grass-roots related agencies, as well as to corporations, the armed forces, federal, state and local government agencies.nrsf programs deal with distracted driving, speed and aggression, impaired driving, drowsy driving, driving skills, senior driving and more. The foundation also works with key youth advocacy groups and sponsors contests to engage teens in promoting safe driving to their peers and in their communities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 69% for direct work, and 31% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 53
- Transparency & Controls: 72
- Accountability: 92
- Sustainability: 84
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 51.1%; rating input score 51
- Program expense ratio: 75.4%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: 98.4%; rating input score 98; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 39.3%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 37.81; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.3%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.2% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.7% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 51.1% of revenue deployed · 75.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 7 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $100K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 31 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and grants
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 7 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 51/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.