The Sunshine Coalition
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 842630922
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2020
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020
- Location
- Baton Rouge, LA, USA
- Phone
- 2252141908
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $435,004
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LOULAN J PITRE JR (PRESIDENT)
- VIRGINIA R SAWYER (VICE PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY)
Highest reported compensation
- LOULAN J PITRE JR (PRESIDENT): $47,500 total reported compensation
- VIRGINIA R SAWYER (VICE PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY): $47,500 total reported compensation
- GAREY FORSTER (TREASURER): $47,500 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Raise public awareness in Louisiana of the damage done to state's economy by frivolous lawsuitss, especially coastaland legacy lawsuits, and to advocate for legislative reform and alternative solutions to protect the state's environment and jobs.
What it reported doing in 2020
Program development , execution, advertising, promotion, creative strategy.website and media content development and production
Operating model
- Revenue model
- No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
- 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: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 60
- Accountability: 77
- Sustainability: 2
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: 88.3%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 32.8%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 88.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $384K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $48K · 3 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 12 of 12 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.