Thrive Ss Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 811080246
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2023
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- East Point, GA, USA
- Phone
- 4042671519
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Health Support Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,333,318
- Expenses
- $1,966,335
- Assets
- $850,996
- Liabilities
- $11,479
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LARRY SCOTT-WALKER (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- LARRY SCOTT-WALKER (CEO): $110,917 total reported compensation
- DWAIN BRIDGES (CFO): $90,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To achieve health equity for black same gender loving men through direct support, advocacy and building collective community power.
What it reported doing in 2023
Transforming HIV resentment into victory everlasting support services incorporated (thrive ss inc) was founded december 4, 2015 by three black gay men living with HIV endeavoring to find an innovative way to offer support, linkage to health care and a sense of belonging to a vibrant community to those like themselves dwain bridges, daniel driffin and larry scott-walker, created the undetectable support model as a way to halt the death and despair amongst black gay men living with HIV young queer men and trans identified people of color are still dying at astronomical rates with all of the prevention messaging and biomedical advancements, the cdc (centers for disease control and prevention) predicts that 1 in 2 black gay men will contract HIV in his lifetime with statistics as grim and morbid as these, it was imperative that someone devise a creative, peoplecentered approach to address the issue in 2014, the guys began an intimate inperson support meeting.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 77
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.8%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 67.7%; rating input score 68
- Fundraising efficiency: $11.83 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- 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: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -47.5%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.43; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.2%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 27.7% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 21.5% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 99.8% of revenue deployed · 67.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $111K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2018 to 2023
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 44/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 35/100.