Sphinx Club Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 530174479
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2013
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2028981688
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $-9,986
- Expenses
- $0
- Assets
- $14,094
- Liabilities
- $12,474
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRUCE MCMULLEN (VICE PRESIDENT)
- MELVIN E HARRISON (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- DONALD R FERGUSON SR (SECRETARY): $72,787 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The sphinx club, inc (sphinx club) is a not-for-profit entity incorporated in the district of columbia. The sphinx club maintains a liquor license for the sale of liquor at meetings and events held at almas temple club building.
What it reported doing in 2024
Provide for sale of liquor at meetings and events held at almas templeclub building.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 83
- Sustainability: 10
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- 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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 27th 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: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -100%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.89; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: -37.2% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -42.5% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -14.2% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 8 of 9 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $73K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 12 of 12 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.