Pilot Club of Columbia Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 570732600
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2016
- Forms available
- Form 990 2016
- Location
- Columbia, SC, USA
- Phone
- 8032542673
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Service Clubs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $457,535
- Expenses
- $484,098
- Assets
- $164,550
- Liabilities
- $7,202
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2016. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Elizabeth Young (Executive Dir.): $52,612 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2016. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization is a local service provider and proudly serves seniors and the disabled from Augusta, Georgia through the midlands of South Carolina. Pilot Club of Columbia Foundation, Inc. is the largest non-profit provider in the Southeast and currently assists over 1,200 subscribers to live safely in their homes.
What it reported doing in 2016
The Lifeline program is an emergency response system for elderly and disabled living alone, or alone a substantial amount of the time. Participants rent the monitoring units for a monthly fee. Medicaid pays a portion or all of some of the participants fees
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 96% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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
STRONG - 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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.2%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 88%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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; 63rd 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: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5.8%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.34; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.9%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -9.9% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -9.1% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.4% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 92.2% of revenue deployed · 88% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $426K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $53K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2010 to 2016
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 33/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.