Smith Walker Switzer Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 454405705
- IRS 990-PF coverage
- 2012–2018
- Forms available
- Form 990-PF 2018
- Location
- Houston, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8323272259
- Rating
- 63
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $67,260
- Expenses
- $47,640
Source: IRS Form 990-PF. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Amounts in USD.
Overview
Mission
Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
What it reported funding in 2018
The foundation reported 17 grants totaling $46,140. The stated grant purposes included to support educationprograms and tosupport programs for the poor., to support educationprograms and to supportprograms for the poor., and to support eductionprograms and to supportprograms for the poor., plus 4 other reported purposes.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the foundation's positive operating resources came from contributions.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no charitable disbursements for the current year.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and the filing identifies who received its grants. Assets provide a limited cushion relative to annual grants and the available information about grant readiness automatic revocation leaves an important question unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Grant Deployment: NotEnoughData
- Cost Efficiency: 97
- Transparency: 100
- Compliance: 100
- Endowment Health: 39
Detailed rating inputs
Grant Deployment
- Grant deployment ratio: Limited
Cost Efficiency
- Grant expense ratio: 96.9%; rating input score 97; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency
- Grant recipient disclosure: Yes; rating input score 100
Compliance
- Part VII-B activity disclosures: 19 of 19 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Property sale or exchange with a disqualified person: Pass
- Borrowing from or lending to a disqualified person: Pass
- Goods, services, or facilities involving a disqualified person: Pass
- Compensation paid to a disqualified person: Pass
- Assets transferred to a disqualified person: Pass
- Payment to a government official: Pass
- Uncorrected prior self-dealing: Pass
- Prior-year undistributed income: Pass
- Excess business holdings: Pass
- Investments that may jeopardize charitable purposes: Pass
- Uncorrected prior-year jeopardizing investments: Pass
- Attempt to influence legislation: Pass
- Attempt to influence an election: Pass
- Grants to individuals: Pass
- Grants to organizations: Pass
- Spending for a noncharitable purpose: Pass
- Funds received for a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Premiums paid on a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Prohibited tax-shelter transaction: Pass
- Filing consistency checks: 9; rating input score 100
Endowment Health
- Endowment-health comparison: 0.74; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Grants: 100% of grant recipient detail disclosed
- Trustees: Filed trustees detail
- Self-dealing: 100% of reviewed questions answered “No”
- Investments: 39th percentile for endowment coverage
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2012 to 2018
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 12 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 — Endowment Health: Endowment-health comparison scored 39/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.