Ranch for Kids Project Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 461300202
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2017
- Forms available
- Form 990 2017
- Location
- Rexford, MT, USA
- Phone
- 4062977592
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Elementary, Secondary Education, K - 12
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,277,902
- Expenses
- $1,227,333
- Assets
- $772,970
- Liabilities
- $35,351
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MELISSA D FELLERS (Past President)
- JOSEPH M CARDINALE (Vice President)
- RYAN HAMSON (President)
Highest reported compensation
- WILLIAM J SUTLEY (PROGRAM DIRECTO): $36,600 total reported compensation
- JOSEPH M CARDINALE (Vice President): $34,030 total reported compensation
- DANIEL W SUTLEY (Secretary/TREAS): $12,200 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Ranch for kids project inc is dedicated to provide a place of hope and healing for hurting families. We offer respite care and a therapeutic environment to help at risk adoptees heal from early childhood trauma.
What it reported doing in 2017
Ranch for kids project inc is dedicated to provide a place of hope and healing for hurting families. We offer respite care and a therapeutic environment to help at risk adoptees heal from early childhood trauma.on average 25 individuals attend the program during the year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 23
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.2%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 93.9%; rating input score 94
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- 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%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.63; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.8%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 90.2% of revenue deployed · 93.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 6 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $37K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2013 to 2017
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 49/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.