Tra Group Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 452703737
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2013, Form 990-N 2012
- Location
- Mount Kisco, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9147643533
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Transportation Assistance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,092,409
- Expenses
- $1,012,090
- Assets
- $510,768
- Liabilities
- $215,511
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CATHERINE WYNKOOP (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- CATHERINE WYNKOOP (PRESIDENT): $135,591 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
1) provide information and referrals to services for older adults and adults with low vision. 2) mobilize volunteer drivers to transport older adult and adults with low vision to medical appointments. 3) arrange other service to provide rides when tra volunteers cannot. 4) share the expense of its online volunteer management system with other aging-in-place and nonprofit organizations which transport older adults for social, cultural, and medical reasons. 5) consult with town and nonprofit organizations that wish to startup their own volunteer ride programs.
What it reported doing in 2024
The program coordinates free rides to medical and related appointments for frail older adults, people with disabilities, and low income residents in westchester county and putnam county, New York and fairfield county, Connecticut. The program also provides free information about resources and services that support older adults and adults with disabilities who live in the communities of the lower hudson valley through its online resource hub 24/7 and by phone to its call center m-f, 9 am to 5 pm.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 91% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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.
- 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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 92.7%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: $228.28 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 93; 93rd 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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.4%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.5; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.42; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.4%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.2% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.9% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.6% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86% of revenue deployed · 92.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 11 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $938K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $136K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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.
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 27/100.