Creative Opportunities Unlimited
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 510413769
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Bear, DE, USA
- Phone
- 3022424954
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $24,487
- Expenses
- $24,674
- Assets
- $50,318
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jacquelyn Blevins (President)
People named in this filing
- Jacquelyn Blevins (President)
- Stephanie Wagner (State Tournament Director)
- Robert Fries (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Delaware Odyssey of the Mind's primary purpose is to provide opportunities for students to develop creative problem solving skills.
What it reported doing in 2024
For the 2024-2025 season, our organization provided provided for 115 teams of up to 7 members the opportunity to learn teamwork,. self-respect, and the appreciation and understanding of others. Children's divergent thinking skills are fostered by working cooperating in teams to solve specific, pre-designated long and short term problems. All students, kindergarden to college and invited to participate in this STEM program. Our organization provides training workshops for students, coaches, coordinators and volunteer judges. DELCAPS provides training materials, workbooks and hands-on materials. Additional information is available at deootm.org. Our organization provides the ability to allow teams to demonstrate their critical thinking and problem solving skills.
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 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.2%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 77.6%; rating input score 78
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.8%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.04; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 18% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 23.8% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.2% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.2% of revenue deployed · 77.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $19K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.