Neighbors Along the Line

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
731160840
IRS 990 coverage
2012–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Tulsa, OK, USA
Phone
9185841111
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Emergency Assistance

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$516,025
Expenses
$661,278
Assets
$665,863
Liabilities
$9,003

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

People named in this filing

  • JACK CANON (DIRECTOR)
  • SHANNON CHAMBERS (EXECUTIVE DI)
  • SHELLY FOWLER (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Neighbors along the line helps individuals meet their basic needs and also provides opportunities for development and increased independence.

What it reported doing in 2024

Our organization provides food, medical care, educational services and a variety of other human needs and self-development assistance to qualified individuals residing in tulsa, as well of residents of sand springs. In 2021 we continued our partnership with osu center for health sciences, tulsa responds, 501technet, assistok, and tulsa community work advance. These partnerships allow us to provide additional value to our clients and have collective impact within our community. Our clinic provides free medical services to 316 patients with a total of 346 medical clinic visits as well as assistance with 700 prescriptions filled with 90% at no charge. We provided no cost lab tests, specialty care, diagnostic testic. We provided free food from our food pantry to 4,492 people for 80,000 nutritious meals. Our ged program enrolled 203 new students and 61 received their diploma. Our community accessed the educational resources of our literacy program for more than 3,524 hours for services such as tutoring, computer usage, job search assistance, ged/hiset preparation and testing. Our community activities department offers program services such as utility assistance, holiday assistance, wic referrals, legal help and 12 step programs. This program also offers enrichment opportunities such as life skills classes and community wide events that promote awareness of neighbors along the line services and well-being in the community. We partner with a variety of other agencies to make as many services as possible available from our location.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 67
  • Transparency & Controls: 79
  • Accountability: 70
  • Sustainability: 33
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 80.8%; rating input score 81
  • Program expense ratio: 63%; rating input score 63
  • Fundraising efficiency: $2.98 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 3rd 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -28.1%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.01; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 8.5% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 80.8% of revenue deployed · 63% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $417K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
  • Consistency: 27 of 28 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 9/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D land buildings reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.