The Sewanee Hospitality Shop Auxiliary Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 620964300
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Sewanee, TN, USA
- Phone
- 9315980136
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hospital, General
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $86,536
- Expenses
- $84,027
- Assets
- $135,640
- Liabilities
- $320
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Pixie Dozier (President)
- April Minkler (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Mary Ann Strobel (Shop Manager): $35,100 total reported compensation
- David Law (Merchandise Sorter): $10,624 total reported compensation
- Rene Brothers (Shop Worker): $4,142 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
This not for profit organization's mission is to support the economically disadvantaged population of a Tennessee Tri-county area, through sales of gently used clothing, household goods and books at a thrift store located on a University Campus. Substantially all goods are donated by the general public and the store is at least 95 staffed by volunteers who donate their time to the mission of the store. The central program is to award scholarships to local high school students going into allied health, through money earned in a thrift shop maintained by the organization.
What it reported doing in 2024
Award multi-year scholarships to local high school students in our tri-county area, through money earned in our thrift shop, managed, staffed and run by our organization. The scholarships awarded are for more than one 1 year. We mentor the scholarship recipients, to ensure student success. The scholarship award program requires the students to maintain an academic B average, in order for each student to remain in the program. Scholarships are for colleges, universities, nursing schools, medical programs such as Emergency Medical Technician EMT training, etc.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 64% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 93% 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 - 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: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 88
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 95.3%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.9%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.61; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 63.5%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 25.2% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 95.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $80K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $35K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 23 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.