Running Start

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
990750988
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
Location
Toledo, OH, USA
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Residential Mental Health Treatment

Reported finances

Revenue
$95,750
Expenses
$181,693
Assets
$16,807
Liabilities
$99,300

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Ralph Warren (Director)
  • Greg Harris (Program Director)
  • Michael Warren (Housing Manager)

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

RunningStart is a Toledo Ohio-based nonprofit organization formed to provide linkage to housing food mental health services and employment opportunities to homeless individuals and former prisoners in Northwest Ohio. The organizations mission is to support individuals on their journey to becoming self-sufficient and meaningful members of the Toledo community. RunningStart believes in second and third chances personal growth and societal reintegration offering a continuum of supportive services that address the immediate and long-term needs of its clients. By connecting vulnerable individuals to stable housing and wraparound resources RunningStart works to reduce recidivism alleviate homelessness and strengthen the Northwest Ohio community

What it reported doing in 2025

RunningStart operated a transitional and short-term housing program in Toledo Ohio serving homeless individuals and former prisoners in Northwest Ohio. During the tax year RunningStart consistently maintained housing for at least 30 individuals at any given time providing safe stable short-term residential placements that serve as a foundation for long-term self-sufficiency. In addition to housing RunningStart linked approximately 60 individuals to community-based mental health programs connecting clients to licensed providers and support services that address the underlying challenges contributing to homelessness and recidivism. RunningStarts wraparound approach addresses housing instability mental health needs food access and employment barriers equipping clients with the tools and resources necessary to reintegrate into society as productive and self-sufficient members of the Toledo community.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 64% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 14
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -89.8%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.09; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 5.91; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 1 filing year from 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: Operating margin scored 8/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.