Thrift Shop

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
480585190
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Fort Leavenworth, KS, USA
Phone
9136516768
Rating
35
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$81,433
Expenses
$90,359
Assets
$18,946
Liabilities
$2,696

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Ellen Ammel (Account Poster)
  • Mary Kendall (Manager)
  • Astrid Davis (Assistant Manager)

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

Generate revenue through the sale of low cost goods to military families, and then use the monies to support local charities and services in the military and civilian community. Provide Military families a conduit to sell their personal Property.

What it reported doing in 2025

Charitable donations to other non-profit organizations throughout the Fort Leavenworth, Leavenworth, and Lansing Kansas communities. Specific organizations receiving donations are listed in schedule O.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 100% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 21
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

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

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -11%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.21; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 53.5%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -25% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -1.5% per year; rating input score 0; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 6 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.