Aspire Group Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 825455246
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Broken Arrow, OK, USA
- Phone
- 9184308472
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,102,815
- Expenses
- $1,105,088
- Assets
- $1,105,501
- Liabilities
- $1,105,088
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Amy Dean (Founder and Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Christi Woodrow (Program Director)
- Gina Gardner (Program Director)
- Craig Dean (Program 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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Aspire Group exists to serve the Tulsa area community and those families and students that choose to school in a non-traditional manner - public charter private online public online traditional homeschool etc. We seek to provide in-class options for students to study electives such as Art Music Health and Fitness and Life Skills. We also provide tutoring for Academic studies to support non-traditional schooling families that need additional help. We have programs that provide Social options to parents families and students opportunities for students with disabilities and special needs college acceptance and career launching programs athletics for special needs & other students community service for the Tulsa area and more.
What it reported doing in 2024
Community Service to the Tulsa Area and surrounding communities. Examples of work done by Aspiring Hands include but are not limited to: local food bank support clothing facilities for the homeless supporting under-privileged areas and community centers by cleaning organizing landscaping etc. and partnering with several different organizations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 89% 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
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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- 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: 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: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.2%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 30.9% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 30.7% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 30.6% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 6 filed program accomplishments · $1.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.