Wyoming Congressional Award Council

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
830264665
IRS 990 coverage
2012–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Cheyenne, WY, USA
Phone
3075142004
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Leadership Development

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$340,178
Expenses
$371,079
Assets
$1,359,372
Liabilities
$4,746

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

Leadership & pay

15 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MIKE WILLIAMS (PRESIDENT)
  • HEIDI RUBICH (VICE PRESIDENT (CURRENT)/TREASURER(FORMER))
  • MARIANNA RUTLEDGE (SECRETARY(CURRENT)/VICE PRESIDENT(FORMER))
  • SARAH COMPTON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • SARAH COMPTON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $104,937 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Encourage a lifetime of community engagement by recognizing initiative, achievement, and service in young people of Wyoming. This is accomplished by educating the residents of Wyoming about the opportunities for all young people to earn the congressional award. Once they have decided to participate, the staff and board of the council support them as they work on the program and as they grow to become awesome humans.

What it reported doing in 2024

The congressional award program is open to all young people in the u.s. Ages 13 to 23, regardless of ability, circumstance, or socioeconomic status. There is no minimum grade point average required to participate, and the program easily accommodates those with special needs or disabilities.what is special and unique about pursuing the award in Wyoming, is that our participants and their advisors have a team to support and celebrate them as they work toward earning a bronze, silver, or gold medal in the award program. Additionally, the Wyoming congressional award council (wcac):1. Hosts a state medalist ceremony to honor our medalists every spring2. Awards each Wyoming gold medalist a $1,000 scholarship to any place of further education or trade3. Hosts group activities for Wyoming gold medalists and their guests while in Washington, d.c., for the gold medal summit. The wcac also offsets nearly 100% of the costs once the medalist is in d.c. After paying the one-time and only registration fee, goals will be set in four program areas: voluntary public service, personal development, physical fitness, and expedition. The participant then begins to record their hours before turning in their record books. 1. Earning the award is an opportunity to get involved in their community, invest time in the activities they already enjoy, and explore new things they have always wanted to try. 2. Each medal journey is unique, and that is what we love most about the program. 3. Their goals, their pace, their choice to work toward the award on their own or with friends each piece of the award story is theirs to create!

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 87% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 95% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 66
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 40
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 73.4%; rating input score 73
  • Program expense ratio: 63.9%; rating input score 64
  • Fundraising efficiency: $10.57 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -9.1%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.66; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 28.3%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -0.9% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 73.4% of revenue deployed · 63.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $237K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $105K · 15 people listed
  • Consistency: 31 of 32 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 41/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 52/100.