Sky Cross Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 742735853
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Antonio, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2105580999
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Food Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $92,956
- Expenses
- $143,379
- Assets
- $1,121,467
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- David K Young (President)
- Terry Bliquez (President Emeritus)
People named in this filing
- David K Young (President)
- Terry Bliquez (President Emeritus)
- Holly Kalmer (Secretary)
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 sky cross inc mission is to help improve the quality of life for the materially poor along the Texas-mexico border area, a few locations in the mexican interior, and other locations around the world.
What it reported doing in 2024
Sky cross, inc continues to provide between 10-12.5 tons of mostly non-perishable food (mostly pinto beans and rice) and some medical supples monthly to established missionaries for distribution to the materially poor. The missionary estimates the number served annually continues to be over 30,000. Many of the faces of the materially poor may change from year to year for many reasons, but the numbers do not change and would increase if sky cross could provide increased support. A continued direct benefit of the food distribution is the education of the many children through direct missionary donations. The combination of sky cross provided food and education of the poor, has resulted in an observed signigicant quality of life improvement for the materially poor receiving both services. A family who also has an educated child(children) can achieve self-sufficiency. Sky cross also provided some medical supplies that have been valued as high a six figures, which are freely donated, and together with some purchased otc medicines, also contribute to the quality of life improvement of the materially poor.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 82% 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
STRONG - 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 revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 99%; rating input score 99
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -54.2%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.82; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -13.3% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 99% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $142K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 15 of 15 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.