Community Action Resource and Developmen
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 730772528
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Claremore, OK, USA
- Phone
- 9183415000
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $14,759,196
- Expenses
- $14,852,645
- Assets
- $9,833,713
- Liabilities
- $749,935
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MIKE DUNLAP (PRESIDENT)
- ROBIN MCSPADDEN (VICE PRESIDENT)
- KAROL MAY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- KAROL MAY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $140,367 total reported compensation
- TAMMY SCULLAWL (FINANCE DIRECTOR): $107,138 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization's mission is to bring together all available local, state, private, and federal resources in order to reduce poverty, revitalize low-income communities, and empower low-income families and individuals in rural and urban areas helping them achieve a better qualityof life and to attain the skills, knowledge, motivation, and opportunities to become self-sufficient.
What it reported doing in 2024
Senior nutrition and outreach - served 41,448 congregate meals to 810 individuals; served 58,534 homebound meals to 880 individuals for a total of 99,982 meals thru the senior nutrition program. Nutrition education provided to 170 sessions. 794 clients were assessed for services needed. 97 clients received 2,362.5 hours of homemaker services. 30 clients received 164.5 hours of heavy house cleaning services. Nutrition counseling provided to 66 clients.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 86% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 90.4%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: $164.51 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd 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; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.6%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.66; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.7%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 91% of revenue deployed · 90.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $13.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $140K · 14 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $281K reported
- Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- 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.
- 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 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.