Rsvp of Dane County Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 391273164
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Madison, WI, USA
- Phone
- 6082387787
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Voluntarism Promotion
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,441,895
- Expenses
- $1,258,679
- Assets
- $3,096,011
- Liabilities
- $949,387
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DEBORAH SPECKMANN (PRESIDENT)
- TOM HOWELLS (VICE PRESIDENT)
- RICHARD HOFFMAN (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)
- DIANA JOST (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- DIANA JOST (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $104,317 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to make a positive impact in the community by recruiting volunteers 55 and older to help public and non-profit organizations deliver essential services to people of all ages and identities, providing dane county with a valuable resource.
What it reported doing in 2024
Community services - include program activities of community connections, vets helping vets, intergenerational, group projects/homeworkers, dane county triad, and foster grandparents. This year 633 volunteers served in 76 nonprofits, public agencies and schools.community connections is a clearing house for volunteer opportunities geared towards adults age 55 and older. Personal placement ensures that volunteers are matched to opportunities that make use of their talents and interests and fit easily into the volunteers' schedules. Vets helping vets volunteers provide rides to medical appointments and other important trips for veterans and their families. Veterans who are unable to drive receive a ride from a fellow veteran volunteer driver who understands some of the problems that younger veterans are facing.rsvp's intergenerational program encourages seniors to interact with children of all ages across dane county. Volunteers serve in schools and local neighborhood centers as reading or math tutors, help with special projects, or as computer buddies.group projects/homeworker volunteers meet in groups or work at home to recycle donated materials making handmade items that benefit families and individuals in need. Nonprofit organizations, social service agencies, and schools distribute these items to their clients.rsvp sponsors dane county triad and assists communities in forming their own local triads to provide information and programs to prevent the criminal victimization of older adults. A yearly conference is held with speakers on crime prevention and safety, resource tables and literature.rsvp sponsors a foster grandparents program that provides stipends for low income volunteers who serve. Foster grandparents work with children in dane county schools, head start, and neighborhood centers helping them with reading, writing, math, and demonstrating how to be successful learners.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 75% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Liabilities are high compared with assets and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74.1%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 81.5%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $46.34 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- 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: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 12.7%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.46; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.31; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.3%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 74.1% of revenue deployed · 81.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $104K · 17 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 43/100.