Port Arthur International Seamen's Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237310686
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Port Arthur, TX, USA
- Phone
- 4099854545
- Rating
- 54
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Labor Unions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $385,784
- Expenses
- $368,674
- Assets
- $1,604,143
- Liabilities
- $3,458
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- James B Robertson (President)
- Michael K Eaves (Vice President)
- FR Sinclair Oubre JCL (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- James B Robertson (President)
- Doreen M Badeaux (Immediate Past Pres)
- Michael K Eaves (Vice President)
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
Providing welfare assistance & transportation for approximately 25,000 seafarers at local beaumont, port arthur, orange, mid-county, sabine pass, and local refinery docks. Providing a place to rest, reading materials, computer access, telephone & tv. Providing transport to restaurants, shopping & religious facilities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 61% 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
MIXED - 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 a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 19
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 13.5%; rating input score 13
- Program expense ratio: 14%; rating input score 14
- Fundraising efficiency: $24.72 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 22nd 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: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 4.4%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.35; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.6% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 13.5% of revenue deployed · 14% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $51K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 20 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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: Mission deployment rate scored 13/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 14/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 54/100.