Trucker Charity Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
271217667
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2012–2017
Forms available
Form 990 2016, Form 990-EZ 2017, Form 990-N 2011
Location
Summerfiled, IL, USA
Phone
8885230087
Rating
65
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$15,790
Expenses
$14,265
Assets
$5,663
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Lance Wood (President/treasure)
  • Ben Pernel (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Lance Wood (President/treasure)
  • Ben Pernel (Vice President)
  • Mark Lawtrop (Secratary)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The mission is to get truckers safe, fed and home after and emergency happens away from home. Including but not limited to hotel rooms, food, life coaching, bus plane and train tickets and even bringing there remains or corpse home after a death.

What it reported doing in 2017

88 meals were provided, 17 bus tickets, 2 plane tickets, 11 last ride homes and hundreds of hours on the phone life coaching drivers.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 94% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 65
  • Transparency & Controls: 74
  • Sustainability: 53
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 61.9%; rating input score 62
  • Program expense ratio: 68.5%; rating input score 69

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 9.7%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.4; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -22.8% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -27.9% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -9.5% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 61.9% of revenue deployed · 68.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $10K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2012 to 2017
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.