Rising Star Outreach Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 020532420
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Provo, UT, USA
- Phone
- 8018200466
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Children's, Youth Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,251,141
- Expenses
- $2,451,220
- Assets
- $3,124,030
- Liabilities
- $56,343
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
33 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Brett Caywood (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Brett Caywood (President): $152,618 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Rising Star Outreach empowers individuals and families to rise above the stigma associated with leprosy, and to live healthy productive lives through quality education, medical care, and community development.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provide education, medical care, community development assistance and projects, food, clothing, shelter, and other aid to disabled, leprosy-affected individuals and families in India.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 85% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 77% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 65
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94.1%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 85.7%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: $15.48 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.2%; rating input score 88; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Pass
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Pass
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 99.3%; rating input score 99; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8.9%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.27; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.2%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.3% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 94.1% of revenue deployed · 85.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 31 of 31 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $153K · 33 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 31 of 33 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 5 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 51/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 49/100.