Easter Seals Tristate
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 310873433
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Cincinnati, OH, USA
- Phone
- 5132812316
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Vocational Rehabilitation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $19,934,773
- Expenses
- $21,756,587
- Assets
- $53,730,433
- Liabilities
- $28,070,789
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
41 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Pamela Green (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Pamela Green (President): $343,623 total reported compensation
- Donel Autin (CFO): $211,645 total reported compensation
- Danielle Gentry-Barth (EVP of Advancement & Veteran Services): $205,388 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Empowering children and adults with disabilities, military veterans, and people facing disadvantages to live full and meaningful lives.
What it reported doing in 2024
Disadvantaged Services Students with disabilities attending area high schools can enroll in programs facilitated by Easterseals Redwood including Project Search which assist with the transition from school to work. Youth who have dropped out of high school or are at-risk can enroll in WIOA Youth or YouthBuild to work towards a GED while training for employment in construction or other fields. Low-income youth are offered summer work experience to develop skills and explore career options. WorkLink is a collaborative program to help families receiving public assistance transition from welfare to work.
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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.3%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 78.5%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.29 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9.1%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.47; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.52; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.1%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.5% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.3% of revenue deployed · 78.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 34 of 34 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $17.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $344K · 41 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $519K reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 5 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.
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 50/100.