Raise A Glass Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 812805886
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Webster, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5854148279
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $127,972
- Expenses
- $133,791
- Assets
- $27,560
- Liabilities
- $10,484
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ronald Dougherty (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Peter Parts (Director)
- Ronald Dougherty (Executive Director)
- Chris Van Zile (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
Collecting and donating to deserving charities a valuable asset - thousands of award-winning bottles of wine, beer and spirits - which they use in their fundraising galas, dinners, auctions and other events.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 91% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 73% for direct work, and 27% for grants.
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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94.9%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 90.8%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 98.1%; rating input score 98; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- 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: -4.5%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.21; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.38; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4.1% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4.7% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 94.9% of revenue deployed · 90.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $121K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.