Texting Awareness Foundation Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
272597783
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2013–2021
Forms available
Form 990 2012, Form 990-EZ 2021
Location
Ronkonkoma, NY, USA
Phone
6315640447
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Safety Education

Reported finances

Revenue
$0
Expenses
$200
Assets
$2,021
Liabilities
$7,795

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

2 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ROCCO PANETTA (President)

People named in this filing

  • ROCCO PANETTA (President)
  • JUDITH LA VERGNE (Treasurer)

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 2021. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Texting Awareness Foundation is committed to making a difference in informing the public daily of the possible legal and physical ramifications that are involved with texting and driving. We remain focused, energized and diligent in our efforts to obtain this goal

What it reported doing in 2021

Texting awareness foundation is committed to making a difference in informing the public daily of the possible legal and physical ramifications that are involved with texting and driving. We reamin focused, energized and diligent in our efforts to obtain this goal

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 38
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 33
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 10.11; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 3.86; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -46.1% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -27.1% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -1.9% per year; rating input score 0; 31st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $200 in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2013 to 2021
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.