Per Diems Against Poverty
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 474016505
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2017
- Forms available
- Form 990 2015, Form 990-EZ 2017
- Location
- Fort Smith, AR, USA
- Phone
- 4794617615
- Rating
- 45
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,498
- Expenses
- $5,252
- Assets
- $3,713
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jennifer Barker (CEO & Co-founder)
People named in this filing
- Jennifer Barker (CEO & Co-founder)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Per Diems Against Poverty reallocates donated per diems from individuals and corporations to provide food to Americans struggling with hunger. We accomplish our mission through our partnership with Feeding America food banks nationwide.
What it reported doing in 2017
These funds were raised through our website: PerDiemsAgainstPoverty.org. The expenses incurred were due to website maintenance fees, software programs, and administrative expenses. These funds were used to provide meals for Americans struggling with hunger.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 20
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 22.6%; rating input score 23
- Program expense ratio: 15%; rating input score 15
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -50.1%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.71; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 38.1%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -130.3% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -7.1% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.3% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 22.6% of revenue deployed · 15% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $789 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2016 to 2017
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 23/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 15/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.