Rides 4 Refugees Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 883988681
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Columbus, OH, USA
- Phone
- 6147066123
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Transportation Assistance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $104,955
- Expenses
- $87,335
- Assets
- $92,913
- Liabilities
- $2,375
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kevin Thelen (President)
People named in this filing
- Brent Dutcher (Director)
- Michael Cao (Director)
- Soheila Noori (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Rides 4 Refugees is a charitable organization devoted to helping central Ohio refugees build a self-sufficient life in the US by aiding in their transportation needs.
What it reported doing in 2025
Assist refugees with their transportation needs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.5%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 93.1%; rating input score 93
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: 16.8%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.06; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.7%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 47.6% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 34.3% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 42.3% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 77.5% of revenue deployed · 93.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $81K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.