Starfish Assignment

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
832584231
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2019
Location
Dublin, OH, USA
Phone
6148226323
Rating
44
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Citizen Participation

Reported finances

Revenue
$54,218
Expenses
$54,427
Assets
$130,781
Liabilities
$1,322

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • NICOLE BANKS (PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER)
  • CHRIS LIEB (EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT)
  • TIM MYERS (EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT)
  • THOMAS SPYKER (EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • NICOLE BANKS (PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER)
  • CHRIS LIEB (EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT)
  • TIM MYERS (EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Charitable

What it reported doing in 2024

Other programs include: blessing bags: holiday meals, treat bags, books and/or grocery gift cards -- $0bikes & badges: amount used to fix old bikes to give away to kids -- $0morale: usually doughnuts or meals delivered to police substations after a particularly difficult incident -- $199individual assignments- circumstances vary -- $9,432block party & events: network/connect events -- $0

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 51
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -0.4%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.4; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -75.8% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -20.2% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 14.9% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 43/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.