Special Projects for Special Children Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 222895607
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2007
- Location
- Punta Gorda, FL, USA
- Phone
- 9088129092
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Developmentally Disabled Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $34,820
- Expenses
- $27,086
- Assets
- $203,952
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ALISON VASS (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- BARBARA ANDERSON (MEMBER)
- ALISON VASS (PRESIDENT)
- WENDY CARUCCI (MEMBER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide activities, events, and needed supplies and equipment for individuals with disabilities in old bridge township's r.o.b.i.n. Therapeutic program.
What it reported doing in 2025
Providing activities, events, supplies and equipment for individuals with disabilities in old bridge township's r.o.b.i.n. Therapeutic recreation program. Provided scholarships for individuals who cannot normally afford to attend these programs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 89% 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 68
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.5%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 97.5%; rating input score 98
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 22.2%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.53; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -6.5% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -13.6% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.5% of revenue deployed · 97.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $26K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.