Volunteer Linc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 582574619
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2018
- Forms available
- Form 990 2018
- Location
- Lincoln, NE, USA
- Phone
- 4024352100
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Voluntarism Promotion
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $91,894
- Expenses
- $138,386
- Assets
- $100,497
- Liabilities
- $960
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Nickey Sampson (President)
- Randy Hawthorne (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Ali Balsam (Director)
- Holly Blanchard (Director)
- Cyndi Bouc (Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide for the development, coordination, organization and promotion of volunteerism in the public and private sector of Lincoln and Lancaster County, Nebraska.
What it reported doing in 2018
Volunteer Partners is establishing a network of Emergency Volunteer Centers, to be operated by volunteers to safely and efficiently utilize spontaneous, unaffiliated volunteers in the event of a community wide disaster.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 81.9%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: $12.47 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -50.6%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.73; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 81.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $113K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2010 to 2018
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 59/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.