Trauma Resource Institute Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 202420669
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Claremont, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9096264070
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Disaster Preparedness and Relief Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,426,188
- Expenses
- $1,568,547
- Assets
- $514,867
- Liabilities
- $237,744
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DEBORAH SMALL MD (VICE PRESIDENT)
- MICHAEL SAPP (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- ELAINE MILLER KARAS (DIRECTOR OF INNOVATION): $128,407 total reported compensation
- MICHAEL SAPP (CEO): $105,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Trauma resource institute tri is a non profit organization whose mission is to take people from despair to hope through simple skills-based interventions based on cutting edge research about the brain and to expand access to biologically based treatments by training frontline service providers community leaders and clinicians to build local capacity in diverse communities nationally and internationally.
What it reported doing in 2024
The trauma resiliency model trm and the community resiliency model crm are designed to help individuals understand the biology of traumatic stress reactions and learn specific skills to return the body mind and spirit back to balance after experiencing traumatic events. These skills can awaken the hope that has for some been lost after natural and human-made disasters. Trauma resource institute inc. Is committed to expanding resiliency worldwide. We have a number of trainings and projects happening throughout the year both domestically in the u.s. And internationally. In calendar 2024 trauma resource institute conducted a total of 57 trainings 40 crm trainings and 17 trm trainings. In total 1,387 individuals were trained by the trauma resource institute in calendar 2024 although the impact is even larger in that in the crm teacher trainings we certify crm teachers to be able to teach the crm model in their own communities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 92% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 17
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.1%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 78.1%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: $1.61 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 5; 5th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -10%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.33; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.46; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14.9%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.3% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.7% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.1% of revenue deployed · 78.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $128K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 41 of 41 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.