City of Fairlawn
Legal name: Community Improvement Corporation of Fairlawn Ohio
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 800828055
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Fairlawn, OH, USA
- Phone
- 3306689500
- Rating
- 55
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Economic Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $275,127
- Expenses
- $86,287
- Assets
- $1,190,035
- Liabilities
- $6
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Christopher Tipping (President)
- Timothy Sisler (Vice-President)
Highest reported compensation
- Ernie Staten (Trustee): $194,023 total reported compensation
- Russell Sharnsky (Trustee): $84,197 total reported compensation
- Jonathon Groza (Secretary): $10,822 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 Corporation was organized for the purpose of advancing, encouraging, and promoting the industrial, economic, commercial and civic development of the City and to facilitate the reclamation, rehabilitation, and re-utilization of real property in the City.
What it reported doing in 2024
The Corporation facilitated the reclamation, rehabilitation, and re-utilization of vacant, abandoned, tax-foreclosed, or other real property in the City of Fairlawn. The Corporation remitted excess lease proceeds to the City that resulted from an on-going 10-year lease/purchase agreement with a local company to re-utilize vacant real property. The Corporation also conveyed two parcels of vacant real property to the City for stormwater management. The Corporation
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Affiliate-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions from related organizations.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 49
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 45
- Sustainability: 79
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 30.5%; rating input score 30
- Program expense ratio: 97.1%; rating input score 97
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 50%; rating input score 50; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 68.6%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 13.79; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: -66.5% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6.2% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.2% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 30.5% of revenue deployed · 97.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 8 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $84K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $194K · 8 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 17 of 17 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 30/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 50/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.