Powhatan Christmas Mother

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
541601888
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2019
Location
Powhatan, VA, USA
Phone
8043371346
Rating
73
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$160,756
Expenses
$82,668
Assets
$157,495
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Wendy Goodwyn (Christmas Mother)
  • Peggy Covert (Christmas Mother Assistant)
  • Suzanne Cline (Secretary)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Provide Christmas gifts to the impoverished in our county, particularly children, elders, and disabled adults. We also fund scholarships and emergency grants for special circumstances. To keep the spirit of Christmas alive every day by responding to community need with grace and mercy.

What it reported doing in 2024

Support specific initiatives to help bolster our clientele in all their ongoing needs throughout the year: $2000 for a food shortage fund, $2000 to our local free health clinic, $2000 to provide medical transportation, $500 for domestic abuse crisis intervention, $5000 for college scholarships, $800 for recreational grants for young people to participate in youth sports/recreation, and other small allocations as need arose.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 90% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 79% for direct work, and 21% for grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 52
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 83
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 38.5%; rating input score 38
  • Program expense ratio: 74.9%; rating input score 75

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 48.6%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.91; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 20.7% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 24% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 38.5% of revenue deployed · 74.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $62K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 38/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.