Winston's Wish Foundation C/o Brandi Keefer

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
208066583
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2010–2020
Forms available
Form 990 2016, Form 990-EZ 2020
Location
Gilbert, SC, USA
Phone
8039292073
Rating
86
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Autism

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$109
Expenses
$4,060
Assets
$86,083
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

People named in this filing

  • LISA CASTELLANI (OFFICER)
  • ROBERT KERR (OFFICER)
  • LUCY HUNT (OFFICER)

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 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The mission of winston's wish foundation is to enable South Carolina's children with autism and their families to thrive. We will offer new educational opportunities and resources for these children and their families. The foundation will promote a heightened awareness and a deeper understanding of autism in the greater community.

What it reported doing in 2020

Winston's wish foundation facilitates an educational series for families and professionals in the best practices of the treatment and education of children with autism and other developmental disabilities. Included in the series are intensive workshops presented by world renowned experts and cover a variety of topics and issues surrounding effective, evidence based, peer reviewed treatment and education

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 99
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 44
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 97.3%; rating input score 97

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -3,624.8%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 21.2; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -19% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -5% per year; rating input score 0; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 18.6% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 97.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2010 to 2020
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue 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.