Eagle Ops Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
834076257
IRS 990 coverage
2019–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2020
Location
Owasso, OK, USA
Phone
9186001911
Rating
64
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Military, Veterans' Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$625,467
Expenses
$599,908
Assets
$405,074
Liabilities
$42,874

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Thomas Dirk (Vice President)
  • Johnathon Shepherd (President)

Highest reported compensation

  • Johnathon Shepherd (President): $55,000 total reported compensation
  • Jessica Shepherd (Marketing Director): $50,000 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Eagle Ops mission is dedicated to empowering veterans, their families, and patriots by fostering connections through social activities, fitness, and volunteerism. Our mission is to create meaningful relationships that not only enrich lives but also provide essential support for a healthy transition home. Through these connections, Eagle OPS links veterans to valuable resources, encouraging a smoother journey towards a fulfilling post-service life.

What it reported doing in 2025

Form 990, part iii, line 4a - first accomplishment operation reach one more organizes and hosts rally points across multiple locations in Oklahoma, serving as central hubs where service members, veterans, and their families gather to access essential support, resources, and social connections. These gatherings are designed to alleviate isolation and loneliness-key contributors to veteran suicide-by fostering a welcoming environment that promotes camaraderie and community. Our program continually seeks to expand its offerings with social events that align with our mission to support veterans and their families. Through operation reach one more, we connect veterans with financial counseling, healthcare navigation, educational opportunities, job placement assistance, mental health support, and legal resources. We also strengthen access to critical services by collaborating with other Oklahoma nonprofits to connect participants with housing assistance, employment services, resume-building support, va claims and benefits guidance, mental health care, and additional vital community resources. The program's flagship event, the welcome home 5k & honor mile, is held annually and honors over 200 fallen service members. This 5k event, cohosted with the ok dav, serves as the largest rally point of the year, bringing together veterans, families, and supporters in a joint fundraiser to further our mission.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 72% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 77
  • Transparency & Controls: 83
  • Accountability: 9
  • Sustainability: 36
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 84.3%; rating input score 84
  • Program expense ratio: 87.7%; rating input score 88
  • Fundraising efficiency: $2.02 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 4.1%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.68; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 17.5%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 30.4% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 31.5% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 36.5% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 84.3% of revenue deployed · 87.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 0 of 3 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $600K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $55K · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 26 of 27 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2025
  • 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.

Key Signals

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

  • High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 6/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D land buildings reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.