The Trip Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472453298
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- New Rochelle, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9146487291
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $20,097
- Expenses
- $8,778
- Assets
- $13,598
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- LIDJ LEWIS (PRSIDENT)
- REUBEN GARDNER (TREASURER)
- MINNIE BATTLE MAYES (BOARD CHAIR)
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 Trip Foundation, a 501(c)(3) public charity, was created to help public high schools in underserved communities continue to provide educational field trips within the U.S. and abroad. Our mission is to alleviate the financial burden of conducting such excursions so that students can expand their intellectual and cultural horizons and experience a world beyond their own.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 77% for direct work, and 23% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - 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: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 75
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 43.7%; rating input score 44
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 56.3%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.55; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 72.3% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 65.2% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 43.7% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $9K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 44/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.