Venus Cemetery Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 383812497
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2010
- Location
- Venus, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8177758487
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Cemeteries
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $46,605
- Expenses
- $37,656
- Assets
- $318,440
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- NELDA FREDERICK (1ST VICE PRESIDENT)
- BESS CARLISLE (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- NELDA FREDERICK (1ST VICE PRESIDENT)
- BESS CARLISLE (PRESIDENT)
- SHIRLEY HEDGEPETH (ASSISTANT SEC/TREASURER)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Burial of the dead.
What it reported doing in 2024
Opening graves, burial of the dead & closing graves - 90% of our purpose. The selling of burial property - 10% of our purpose. The first burial in the venus cemetery was recorded in 1896 and has been in continuous operation since that time. The cemetery has provided a final resting place for hundreds of residents & former residents of venus and will continue to do so in the future.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 69
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 19.2%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 8.46; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.3%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.