The Treasure Traders

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
264494253
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2010–2013
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2013
Location
Littleton, CO, USA
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Public Foundations

Official website

Reported finances

Expenses
$1,436
Assets
$2,412
Liabilities
$139,984

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2013. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Connie Stevinson (President)

People named in this filing

  • Connie Stevinson (President)
  • Ellen Palazzo (Secretary)
  • Deb Smith (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 2013. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Assist & Empower Rwandan Women

What it reported doing in 2013

Purchase handmade baskets & jewelry from Rwandan women & sell on a wholesale and retail basis Purchases directly benefitted the women to learn skills to become self sufficient

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
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

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: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 20
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.68; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 58.04; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -120% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -73.8% per year; rating input score 0; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -70.6% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 4 of 4 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2010 to 2013
  • 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 51/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.