Sparrow Collective
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 861306038
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2021, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Highland Village, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2814339117
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $884,097
- Expenses
- $718,400
- Assets
- $579,927
- Liabilities
- $92,023
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RACHEL JOY (PRESIDENT/DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- RACHEL JOY (PRESIDENT/DIRECTOR): $58,380 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 equip and empower all women to understand their god-given significance and intentionally live by providing avenues for kingdom impact
What it reported doing in 2024
Sparrow collective provides ongoing training programs, mentors / coaches, and resources for women and teens, including at risk women in the community to advance the teachings of jesus christ. While programs are based on christian principles, they include personal growth components. We currently work with a small network of local nonprofits to train their volunteers and mobilize them to best serve the community at large. In addition, sparrow collective receives referrals from local school districts and other non-profit entities to relationally work alongside at-risk women and children, making sure their physical, emotional, and spiritual needs are met.through the ministry of sparrow, hundreds of women from around the world have heard the gospel and experienced freedom, studied god's truth, realized their identity in christ, and have been catalyzed into their unique kingdom purpose. Restore program (7 weeks in the fall and spring): 33 participants job training and advocacy program / production studio (9 months) - paid position: 4 participants children's restore program: 59 children sparrow equip courses and coaching: 200+ women and men participants in s|coaching (12) and courses (2 event w/ 122 participants and online course participants)restore mentor's program: 50 participants (individuals paired with a restore program participant) volunteer's - 25; served in various hospitality capacities
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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 65.3%; rating input score 65
- Program expense ratio: 79.3%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: $12.75 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
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: 90%; rating input score 90; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 18.7%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.81; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.16; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.1%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 27.5% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 40.4% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 33.8% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 65.3% of revenue deployed · 79.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 10 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $570K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $58K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 46/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 43/100.