Transitional Living Services Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 391258650
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2013
- Forms available
- Form 990 2013
- Location
- Milwaukee, WI, USA
- Phone
- 4144769631
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Mental Health Treatment F31 Psychiatric, Mental Health Hospital
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $14,520,340
- Expenses
- $14,953,248
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2013. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Margaret Dubord (President)
- Dr Howard Garber (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Dr Howard Garber (Executive Director): $503,816 total reported compensation
- Richard Zalewski (Treasurer): $331,318 total reported compensation
- Margaret Dubord (President): $180,591 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2013. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Transitional living services, inc. (tls) is guided by our mission to promote mental health recovery and independence by providing housing, supportive services, and advocacy for adults with mental illness.
What it reported doing in 2013
Our independent pharmacy staff have specialized knowledge in medications for people living with mental illness. We currently serve approximately 770 individuals each year. In addition to prompt, professional service to our consumers, the TLS community pharmacy offers an added long-term benefit to the behavioral health community. Having the TLS community pharmacy fill prescriptions ensures that proceeds from the program go directly back to the behavioral health system. All proceeds support other important, yet under-funded, mental health programs in our community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 64% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 91
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 14
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.5%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 88.8%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $188,763.41 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 70%; rating input score 70; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 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: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.1%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -42.1% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 91.5% of revenue deployed · 88.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 10 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 6 filed program accomplishments · $13.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $504K · 11 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $118K reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2010 to 2013
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 5 filed related-organization links
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 55/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.