Rotary International Shreveport
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 720304248
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Shreveport, LA, USA
- Phone
- 3182861400
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $197,240
- Expenses
- $239,630
- Assets
- $96,569
- Liabilities
- $61,375
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LAWRENCE CALHOUN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- GREG LOTT (PRESIDENT)
- DAVID BRAINIS (PRESIDENT-ELECT)
- GAYLE FLOWERS (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- LAWRENCE CALHOUN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $37,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Service above self: to encourage and foster services in personal, business and community life; high ethical standards in business and professions; and the advancement of international understanding, goodwill and peace through a fellowship united in service.
What it reported doing in 2024
Rotary club offers its members opportunities for enrichment in the community and civic services; goals achieved by weekly programs and local service projects, grants to fund local projects of non-profit organizations, and scholarships. One major project is the district grant awarded to basic necessities, a non-profit organization that provides diapers and period product supplies at no cost to people in the arklatex region who are experiencing economic challenges. Another major project is the civic grant awarded to the ymca of northwest Louisiana. This civic grant was awarded to aid in the building of new fields and to sponsor the concession stand. Additional projects during the fiscal tax year included participation in the 4h jr. Livestock show for funds to go towards the 4h student's scholarship, as well as other small community projects.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 87% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 68% for direct work, 18% for grants, and 14% for affiliated organizations.
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 the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 69
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 16
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 84.9%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 38%; rating input score 38; 40th 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: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -21.5%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.4; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.64; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.4%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.5% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.5% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -9.2% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 84.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $203K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $37K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 25 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.