The Ray Mickens Champions Fund
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 200988514
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2013
- Forms available
- Form 990 2011, Form 990-EZ 2013
- Location
- Westlake, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8174210398
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $15,967
- Expenses
- $11,371
- Assets
- $5,146
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2013. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ray Mickens (President)
- Nicole Mickens (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Ray Mickens (President)
- Nicole Mickens (Vice President)
- Dorothy Hudson (Secretary)
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 2013. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Organized to initiate, support, promote and develop activities and programs that will enrich the lives of youth in the city of El Paso, Texas.
What it reported doing in 2013
Reading program for students in El Paso, Texas school system; several hundred eligible middle school children engaged in a reading program to earn autographed football jerseys and other prizes.
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
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.1%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 97%; rating input score 97
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 28.8%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.45; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -27.2% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.9% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 69.1% of revenue deployed · 97% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $11K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- 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: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.