Rehoboth Beach Writers Guild Assoc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 201763002
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2011
- Location
- Rehoboth Beach, DE, USA
- Rating
- 58
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Humanities Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $101,354
- Expenses
- $104,554
- Assets
- $10,431
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ethan Joella (President)
- Sarah Barnett (Vice-President)
- Maribeth Fischer (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Ethan Joella (President)
- Sarah Barnett (Vice-President)
- Thomas Hoyer (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
Promote writing in the community
What it reported doing in 2024
FreeWrites: Online and in-person writing groups to allow for exchanges and feedback on writing. Four weekly with average of 30-40 people per week.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 88% 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 program spending has grown recently. 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: 41
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 15
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 41.2%; rating input score 41
- Program expense ratio: 39.9%; rating input score 40
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.2%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.1; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 55.6%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -15.9% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 41.2% of revenue deployed · 39.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $42K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 41/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.