Safe and Sober Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
463408060
IRS 990 coverage
2014–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2013
Location
Springfield, MO, USA
Phone
4176314009
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Youth Development N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$500,090
Expenses
$462,913
Assets
$171,635
Liabilities
$7,502

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

People named in this filing

  • KURT LARSON (Chairman)
  • RACHEL RISO (Director)
  • JULIE GREY (Director)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The mission of Missouri Safe and Sober is to deliver outcome-based educational programs designed to empower young people to make safe choices. We work to prevent substance abuse.

What it reported doing in 2024

The 2024 tax year, our non-profit mission is to deliver prevention education to youth, many of which are experiencing our program in school. For that reason this report is based on our accomplishments in the 2024-2025 school year. The number of Missouri schools and organizations signed up for Safe and Sober has seen a 61.4 % increase during the 2024-2025 school year totaling 452. The number of students served by Missouri Schools and Organizations showed an 89% increase over FY 24 totaling 249,339 youth. Because the materials are available on our website at no cost, we track all users in addition to Missouri. Currently there are 724 registered users throughout all 50 states in the United States serving 439,458 youth. .This program year Safe and Sober (SNS) piloted a Clubs initiative to integrate prevention into student-led clubs, in addition to our full prevention program that is used by counselors, School Resource Officers, classroom teachers, and administrators in public, private and homeschools across the US. For our Clubs initiative we focused on the southwest Missouri Region to track the effectiveness of afterschool prevention. All told 46 schools and organizations participated including: 5 FCCLA chapters, 2 SADD chapters, Various Student Councils, 3 Project Graduation Committees, YMCA and 4-H chapters, Boys and Girls Club and multiple faith-based youth groups. Some of the data we collected from Clubs to measure our success includes: more than 1,100 students completed pre/post-tests: Pre-test: 637 students strongly agreed that using alcohol/drugs before 21 poses a significant risk. Post-test: 808 students strongly agreed. That is a 26.8% increase which suggests these youth are learning from the education we provide to them. As part of our larger program, SNS creates impaired driving TV spots that are distributed across the State of Missouri in broadcast media and social media from April September, known as the 100 most dangerous days. Additionally, we utilize social media to deliver our youth prevention education to young audiences from May September on Tik Tok, Instagram, Pandora, Spotify and Facebook.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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

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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 83
  • Transparency & Controls: 86
  • Accountability: 64
  • Sustainability: 47
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 84.4%; rating input score 84
  • Program expense ratio: 91.1%; rating input score 91
  • Fundraising efficiency: $18.66 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 12th 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: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 7.4%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.37; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 84.4% of revenue deployed · 91.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $422K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 19 of 20 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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 6 not reported.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 57/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 54/100.