Ruths Way Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 202724398
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Phone
- 4125731375
- Rating
- 44
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Group Homes
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $201,399
- Expenses
- $249,176
- Assets
- $263,767
- Liabilities
- $163,488
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ISIS L CHATMAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- SHIRLEY B SLADE (PRESIDENT)
- VERNON CHATMAN (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ISIS L CHATMAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $50,719 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To empower adolescent females youth between the ages of 10-17 to realize their own voice and strength in their ability to control their own destinies and outcomes in helping them to achieve long-term success as ethical virtuous women.
What it reported doing in 2024
To empower adolescent females youth between the ages of 10-17 to realize their own voice and strength in their ability to control their own destinies and outcomes to achieve long-term success.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 97% 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.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 6
- Transparency & Controls: 85
- Accountability: 59
- Sustainability: 21
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 6.9%; rating input score 7
- Program expense ratio: 5.6%; rating input score 6
- 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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -23.7%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.06; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.62; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 20.4%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -7% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.1% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 33.3% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 6.9% of revenue deployed · 5.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 6 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $14K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $51K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 20 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- 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.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 7/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.