Ruth Meiers Hospitality House
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 363531940
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2014
- Forms available
- Form 990 2014
- Location
- Bismarck, ND, USA
- Phone
- 7012222108
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Emergency Assistance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,707,499
- Expenses
- $1,926,937
- Assets
- $9,043,343
- Liabilities
- $8,179,433
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2014. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RAE ANN KELSCH (PRESIDENT)
- LEO GEFROH JR (PAST PRESIDENT)
- JACLYN HALL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- JACLYN HALL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $85,225 total reported compensation
- ELLY RADOMSKI (SECRETARY): $45,673 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2014. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization's mission is to provide tools to empower individuals to achieve self sufficiency.
What it reported doing in 2014
Support services include the soup kitchen, medical care, single point of contact, etc. And provides services to individuals and families in the bismarck-mandan area who are in need. During fiscal year 2015, over 100,000 meals were provided to individuals. Clients receive individualized case management to support their transition to self sufficiency.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.1%; rating input score 99
- Program expense ratio: 87.8%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $10.13 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 22nd 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: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 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: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -12.9%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.69; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.9; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.8%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 26.3% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 22.2% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 70.7% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 99.1% of revenue deployed · 87.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 12 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $85K · 13 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $625K reported
- Consistency: 32 of 33 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2011 to 2014
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 49/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.