Truancy Intervention Project Georgia
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 582096728
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Atlanta, GA, USA
- Phone
- 4046134741
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Delinquency Prevention
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $601,883
- Expenses
- $687,558
- Assets
- $1,105,712
- Liabilities
- $25,823
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- LORI MILLER (Executive Dir.): $55,191 total reported compensation
- TEYANA CHANEY (INTERIM ED): $44,400 total reported compensation
- TONYA FERGUSON (Executive Dir.): $26,052 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To increase student attendance and opportunities for success through legal and family advocacy.
What it reported doing in 2024
Operating in Fulton County since 1991, TIP Georgia, Inc. has the objective to provide early positive intervention with children in Atlanta Public and Fulton County schools who are chronically absent from school and as a result, either become involved with the Fulton County Juvenile Court or are referred for early intervention at the school level. By pairing volunteers (attorneys and non-attorneys) with children and their families, TIP strives to decrease absenteeism rates and provide families with resources and services necessary to ensure good attendance and success in school. To date over 1,100 TIP volunteers have donated thousands of hours of time to represent more than 11,000 truant children. The hours contributed by the volunteer attorneys represent an estimated savings to Fulton county taxpayers over $5.5 million dollars and this estimate does not include all that is contributed by non-attorney volunteers.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 81% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 77
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 74.9%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.45 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 50%; rating input score 50; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 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: NotApplicable
- 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: -14.2%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.61; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 18.3%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.1% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87% of revenue deployed · 74.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $515K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $55K · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 30 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 50/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.