Association of Fundraising Professionals

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
311242682
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2019, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Cincinnati, OH, USA
Phone
5139335447
Rating
57
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$146,171
Expenses
$224,345
Assets
$171,648
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

20 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Lynn Smith (President)
  • Catherine Hann (President Elect)
  • Quinton Jefferson (Secretary and Vice President Ethics)
  • Josh Hamilton (Collegiate Vice President)
  • Sydney Pepper (Communications Co-Vice President)
  • Lyndy Rohe (Communications Co-Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Lynn Smith (President)
  • Catherine Hann (President Elect)
  • Kila Hanrahan (Treasurer)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

AFP Greater Cincinnati Chapter, an association of professionals, advances philanthropy by enabling its members and nonprofit organizations to practice ethical and effective fundraising that changes our community for the better. This is performed through education, training, and advocacy.

What it reported doing in 2025

The Greater Cincinnati Chapter Job Bank is a job board platform helping to connect fundraising professionals with available positions at organizations in the Greater Cincinnati area. In 2025, there were 91 job postings across 65 organizations.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 90% 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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 29
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 25
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 34.9%; rating input score 35
  • Program expense ratio: 20.2%; rating input score 20

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -53.5%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.77; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 37%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -4% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -0.5% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 34.9% of revenue deployed · 20.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $45K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 20 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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: Mission deployment rate scored 35/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 20/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.