Steered Straight Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 223781365
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2019
- Forms available
- Form 990 2019, Form 990-N 2013
- Location
- Murfreesboro, TN, USA
- Phone
- 8566916676
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Crime Prevention
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $318,374
- Expenses
- $285,627
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2019. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GERARD VELAZQUEZ III (PRESIDENT)
- CHARLES FRALINGER (VICE PRESIDENT)
- MICHAEL DELEON (CEO /FOUNDER)
- DARLA DELEON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- DARLA DELEON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $38,424 total reported compensation
- MICHAEL DELEON (CEO /FOUNDER): $27,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2019. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Prevention of drug and alcohol use and abuse among our youth by sharing the realities of making poor life choices.
What it reported doing in 2019
Presentations to schools and other youth audiences
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 94% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 63
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.4%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 96.3%; rating input score 96
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.3%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 22.9%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -9.6% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.4% of revenue deployed · 96.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $275K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $38K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2014 to 2019
- 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.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.