Throw Back Thrift
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 475376024
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Glenside, PA, USA
- Phone
- 2156580828
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Thrift Shops
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $134,560
- Expenses
- $131,296
- Assets
- $48,829
- Liabilities
- $19,881
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jennifer Nicholaides (President)
People named in this filing
- Jennifer Fair (Treasurer)
- Joan Hamel (Director)
- Dorritt Sterner (Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Operate thrift shop to support three different categories of 501(c)(3) organizations: (1) animal rescue and adoption; (2) faith-based education for underserved and underprivileged youth; (3) addressing human suffering issues globally, including human trafficking
What it reported doing in 2024
Distribute linens and financial resources to organizations that support animal rescue and adoption. Distribute linens and clothing to organizations providing shelter for the homeless or housing rehabilitation and clothing for low-income families. Distribute clothing, linens and other household items to other not-for-profit thrift shops.
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 96% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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 some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 59
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 96.8%; rating input score 97
- Program expense ratio: 99.2%; rating input score 99
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 19th 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: 71.4%; rating input score 71; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.4%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.37; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.41; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4.9% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 96.8% of revenue deployed · 99.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 7 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $130K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 23 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 45/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.