CAP Tulsa

Legal name: Community Action Project of Tulsa County Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
731019247
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Tulsa, OK, US
Phone
(918) 382-3200
Rating
83
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$68,854,562
Expenses
$72,237,205
Assets
$70,865,350
Liabilities
$14,731,482

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

Leadership & pay

26 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DR ANITA EDE (PRESIDENT)
  • BRAD CUNNINGHAM (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • KAREN TILKIN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • KAREN TILKIN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $351,530 total reported compensation
  • CATHERYN ACKENHAUSEN (CHIEF TALENT OFFICER): $193,181 total reported compensation
  • MICHELLE BOATRIGHT (CHIEF PROGRAM OFFICER): $190,981 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

CAP Tulsa's mission is to interrupt the cycle of poverty through high-quality early childhood education and comprehensive two-generation support for families.

What it reported doing in 2024

Early childhood education: cap tulsa's early childhood program provides early learning and care services for eligible families with children under the age of five. The program supports children's development through a curriculum promoting social-emotional, language, cognitive, and motor skills to prepare children for kindergarten. As a head start and early head start provider serving the majority of tulsa county, cap tulsa operated 10 preschools with a total capacity to serve over 1,500 children. Through collaborative partnerships with school districts, social services agencies, and healthcare practitioners, cap tulsa's program offers a range of services targeted to children and their families including parental education, crisis intervention, medical care, nutrition assistance, and instruction to children with special needs.cap tulsa also provided recurring home visits by parent educators to 172 additional families to help parents be the primary teachers of their children.cap tulsa also operated the Oklahoma early childhood program which increased the quality of care and instruction to more than 1,500 additional children statewide through partnerships with 7 other providers across 6 counties to advance best practices, staff credentialing, and program quality through financial and technical assistance.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 61% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 72% for direct work, and 28% for grants.

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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 80
  • Transparency & Controls: 80
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 32
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 92.4%; rating input score 92
  • Program expense ratio: 86.8%; rating input score 87
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th 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; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • 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: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -4.9%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.98; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: 92.4% of revenue deployed · 86.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $62.7M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $352K · 26 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $20.6M reported
  • Consistency: 36 of 37 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 18 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 15 filed related-organization links
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.