Daviess County 4-H Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 356042042
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2018, Form 990-N 2009
- Location
- Washington, IN, USA
- Phone
- 8122548668
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $130,989
- Expenses
- $104,256
- Assets
- $885,849
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SYLVIA CLINTON (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- SCOTT ARMES (Chairman)
- ERIC LANE (Treasurer)
- TARA PARSONS (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
4-h is the only federally authorized youth serving organization. It is also the largest youth serving organization in the country. It is a volunteer-led organization that reaches youth through a variety of programs in both rural and urban settings. 4-h provides fun, educational opportunities at the local, state, national and international levels. 4-h programs are hands-on, age-appropriate, and university-based. 4-h helps youth improve their self-confidence; learn subject matter; and develop important skills including leadership, citizenship, communication, and decision-making that can be applied over a lifetime. For older teens, 4-h also offers opportunities to develop and test their leadership skills as 4-h volunteers and working with youth. For adults, 4-h offers opportunities for training in a variety of areas including youth development, instruction, and more.
What it reported doing in 2024
The daviess county 4-h association provides/pays for youth and adult leadership training opportunities/workshops, youth award trips, 4-h awards, 4-h program materials, and 4-h school enrichment program supplies. The 4-h show and program provides an opportunity for daviess county youth to showcase their achievements and hard work as well as to work with and meet youth from across daviess county and Indiana. Opportunities are available for Indiana state fair participation, attendance at workshops on the purdue university campus and other sites.
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 - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 52
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 58
- Sustainability: 78
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 53.6%; rating input score 54
- Program expense ratio: 66.9%; rating input score 67
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 19th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 20.4%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 8.5; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.3% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 24.6% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 53.6% of revenue deployed · 66.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 0 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $70K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 16 of 17 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 54/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.