The Phoenix Alliance of North Carolina Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 832955112
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Eden, NC, USA
- Phone
- 3364841090
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Children's, Youth Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $102,785
- Expenses
- $85,673
- Assets
- $33,201
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ethan Wheeler (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Ethan Wheeler (Executive Director)
- Ted Wheeler (Chairman)
- David Hollander (Vice Chair/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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Phoenix Alliance (TPA) fights against human trafficking by focusing our efforts in the areas of prevention, intervention, advocacy, and after care. We use a variety of methods to educate communities and individuals against the dangers of sex trafficking. We identify victims through referrals, through response to our trafficking safety curriculum, and through our investment in youth within the juvenile justice system. In the USA we have ongoing work in North Carolina and Indiana. Overseas, we are partnering with a shelter home in northern Thailand.
What it reported doing in 2025
Indiana Program Service Accomplishments: In 2025 our Indiana Area Director and up to 20 volunteer staff continued our work in the areas of human trafficking aftercare, advocacy, prevention and education. TPA Indiana handled multiple cases of partner agency referrals, law enforcement support referrals, consulting events with law enforcement, and others. Ongoing aftercare was provided for up to eight simultaneous "tier 1" (highest level of care) beneficiaries, and twelve lower-level cases. In addition, TPA staff presented at conferences and community trafficking awareness and prevention events. Our Indiana Area Director also continued to serve as a Court Appointed Special Advocate volunteer (CASA) and as a youth advocate in the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI) program.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 85% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 59.1%; rating input score 59
- Program expense ratio: 70.9%; rating input score 71
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: 16.6%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.39; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.6%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.1% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 55.1% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 59.1% of revenue deployed · 70.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $61K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.