West Central Florida Driver Improvement Dba West Central Florida Safety Council

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
592533366
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Ocala, FL, USA
Phone
3526226991
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Automotive Safety

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$834,856
Expenses
$885,500
Assets
$624,476
Liabilities
$100,537

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JUDGE TOMMY THOMPSON (PRESIDENT)
  • KRISTI VAN VLEET (VICE PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • JUDY NOBLES (BUSINESS MANAGER (CFO)): $67,494 total reported compensation
  • MARTHA DOMINGUEZ (DIRECTOR OF PROGRAM OPERAT): $67,405 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 provide education & program services to individuals/groups in the communities served. These efforts encourage safe & healthy attitudes, behavior, and lifestyles promoting traffic safety, safe/drug-free living, minimized emotional strain & reduced costs to individuals & society.

What it reported doing in 2024

Driver improvement program - enrollment for 2024: approximately 286. Basic driver improvement program which is a four hour course used to remove points and satisfy the department of highway motor vehicles requirements for traffic collision avoidance course. Driver improvement also includes: drug, alcohol and traffic education "date" (state-mandated four hour course for first time drivers to get their drivers license); intermediate/advanced driver improvement program "idi" & "adi" (these eight "idi and twelve "adi" hour courses are for multiple offenders, court-order traffic offenders and/or aggressive drivers); and victim impact panel "vip" (for dui offenders, or those whose dui has been amended to reckless driving, aggressive drivers, teenagers, and first time drivers).

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 96% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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

SUPPORTED - 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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 88
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 74
  • Sustainability: 26
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 97.6%; rating input score 98
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -6.1%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.71; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.16; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 15.2%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -1.1% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 97.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $865K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $67K · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 22/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.