Warren Skaaren Charitable Trust
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 742619296
- IRS 990-PF coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-PF 2024
- Location
- Austin, TX, USA
- Phone
- 5126987272
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $208,720
- Expenses
- $215,724
Source: IRS Form 990-PF. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Overview
Mission
Warren Skaaren Charitable Trust is a nonprofit. Location: Austin, TX. EIN 742619296. Tax year 2024 Form 990-PF reports $209K revenue and $216K expenses.
What it reported funding in 2024
The foundation reported 13 grants totaling $154,000. The stated grant purposes included to provide accessibleaffordable, quality learning opportunities, to help children copewhen a parent facesserious or life-threatening illness, and to support the efforts of thefacility to provide no-kill shelter and adoption for animals, plus 10 other reported purposes.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 73% of the foundation's positive operating resources came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The foundation distributed 82% of its reported charitable disbursements as grants.
- Includes asset-sale income: Asset-sale income is shown separately from recurring resources when classifying the revenue model.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes to charitable grants and the filed numbers largely add up. Assets provide a limited cushion relative to annual grants.
Rating breakdown
- Grant Deployment: 100
- Cost Efficiency: 71
- Transparency: 100
- Compliance: 100
- Endowment Health: 31
Detailed rating inputs
Grant Deployment
- Grant deployment ratio: 100%; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Cost Efficiency
- Grant expense ratio: 71.4%; rating input score 71; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency
- Grant recipient disclosure: Yes; rating input score 100
Compliance
- Part VII-B activity disclosures: 19 of 19 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Property sale or exchange with a disqualified person: Pass
- Borrowing from or lending to a disqualified person: Pass
- Goods, services, or facilities involving a disqualified person: Pass
- Compensation paid to a disqualified person: Pass
- Assets transferred to a disqualified person: Pass
- Payment to a government official: Pass
- Uncorrected prior self-dealing: Pass
- Prior-year undistributed income: Pass
- Excess business holdings: Pass
- Investments that may jeopardize charitable purposes: Pass
- Uncorrected prior-year jeopardizing investments: Pass
- Attempt to influence legislation: Pass
- Attempt to influence an election: Pass
- Grants to individuals: Pass
- Grants to organizations: Pass
- Spending for a noncharitable purpose: Pass
- Funds received for a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Premiums paid on a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Prohibited tax-shelter transaction: Pass
- Filing consistency checks: 10; rating input score 100
Endowment Health
- Endowment-health comparison: 12.43; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Grants: 100% of grant recipient detail disclosed
- Payout: At least 100% grant deployment rate
- Trustees: Filed trustees detail
- Self-dealing: 100% of reviewed questions answered “No”
- Investments: 31th percentile for endowment coverage
- Consistency: 10 of 10 current checks pass
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 14 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Moderate — Endowment Health: Endowment-health comparison scored 31/100.