The Isabel Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 382853004
- IRS 990-PF coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-PF 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Flint, MI, USA
- Phone
- 8107670136
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,551,710
- Expenses
- $3,987,069
Source: IRS Form 990-PF. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Overview
Mission
The Isabel Foundation is a nonprofit. Location: Flint, MI. EIN 382853004. Tax year 2024 Form 990-PF reports $3.6M revenue and $4M expenses.
What it reported funding in 2024
The foundation reported 82 grants totaling $3,292,000. The stated grant purposes included 2025-2027 pledge - general operating, general operating, camperships and any other unexpected needs, and matching grant for general operating expenses, plus 55 other reported purposes.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Investment-supported. 100% of the foundation's positive operating resources came from recurring investment income.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The foundation distributed 92% of its reported charitable disbursements as grants.
- Includes asset-sale income: Asset-sale income is shown separately from recurring resources when classifying the revenue model.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes to charitable grants and the filing identifies who received its grants. The filing reports one or more activities that warrant closer review.
Rating breakdown
- Grant Deployment: 88
- Cost Efficiency: 83
- Transparency: 100
- Compliance: 94
- Endowment Health: 72
Detailed rating inputs
Grant Deployment
- Grant deployment ratio: 87.6%; rating input score 88; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Cost Efficiency
- Grant expense ratio: 82.6%; rating input score 83; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency
- Grant recipient disclosure: Yes; rating input score 100
Compliance
- Part VII-B activity disclosures: 17 of 19 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Property sale or exchange with a disqualified person: Pass
- Borrowing from or lending to a disqualified person: Pass
- Goods, services, or facilities involving a disqualified person: Fail
- Compensation paid to a disqualified person: Fail
- Assets transferred to a disqualified person: Pass
- Payment to a government official: Pass
- Uncorrected prior self-dealing: Pass
- Prior-year undistributed income: Pass
- Excess business holdings: Pass
- Investments that may jeopardize charitable purposes: Pass
- Uncorrected prior-year jeopardizing investments: Pass
- Attempt to influence legislation: Pass
- Attempt to influence an election: Pass
- Grants to individuals: Pass
- Grants to organizations: Pass
- Spending for a noncharitable purpose: Pass
- Funds received for a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Premiums paid on a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Prohibited tax-shelter transaction: Pass
- Filing consistency checks: 9; rating input score 100
Endowment Health
- Endowment-health comparison: 26.83; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Grants: 100% of grant recipient detail disclosed
- Payout: 87.6% grant deployment rate
- Trustees: Filed trustees detail
- Self-dealing: 100% of reviewed questions answered “No”
- Investments: 72th percentile for endowment coverage
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 85 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.
- Review — Compliance: Part VII-B activity disclosures: 2 of 19 not reported.