Travaux Inc.
Legal name: Travaux Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 462796790
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2023
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Milwaukee, WI, US
- Phone
- (414) 209-1800
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Temporary Housing
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $38,360,364
- Expenses
- $39,727,239
- Assets
- $27,938,484
- Liabilities
- $24,678,183
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- WILLIE L HINES JR (PRESIDENT & CHAIR OF BOARD)
Highest reported compensation
- WILLIE L HINES JR (PRESIDENT & CHAIR OF BOARD): $274,911 total reported compensation
- FERNANDO ANIBAN (TREASURER): $241,939 total reported compensation
- WARREN JONES (VP OF CONSTRUCTION): $152,651 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Travaux Inc. is a full-service development and construction company with a social mission. We provide development, construction, property management, and consulting services to deliver financial and social returns on your investments.
What it reported doing in 2023
To provide development, construction, rehabilitation and construction management services for public housing authorities, private development projects and other 501 (c)(3) certified entities: travaux is currently providing consulting services to a chartered public school in milwaukee. Consulting services started in 2017. The services include assisting the organization with master planning of the school campus. Travaux assisted the entity in choosing and selecting refutable firms necessary to do the master planning. This was completed in 2021 and then will proceed in actual development as determined feasible.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 66
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.3%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 78.7%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.6%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.7; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.88; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.6%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 18.4% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 19.4% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 24.6% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 81.3% of revenue deployed · 78.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 8 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $31.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $275K · 18 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $17.3M reported
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2017 to 2023
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.