Central Topeka Grocery Oasis Group Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 873582390
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Topeka, KS, USA
- Phone
- 7852506939
- Rating
- 92
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Food, Agriculture, and Nutrition N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $101,734
- Expenses
- $122,963
- Assets
- $331,100
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- NADIA ARBELO (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- NADIA ARBELO (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $81,459 total reported compensation
- ROBERT RILEY (CHAIR): $22,044 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide a nourishing, affordable, sustainable food source to central topeka neighborhoods facing food insecurity.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provide sustainable food source to central topeka neighborhoods
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 94% 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 revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 98
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 95%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: $957.77 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -20.9%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.69; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 84.2%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 117.8% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -70% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 95% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $117K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $81K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 19 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.