Economic Opportunity Agency of Washington County Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 710390902
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Springdale, AR, USA
- Phone
- 4798727479
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $8,483,161
- Expenses
- $8,726,360
- Assets
- $5,104,480
- Liabilities
- $894,739
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TRACI JARDIN (PRESIDENT)
- GRACIE ZIEGLER (VICE PRESIDENT)
- DELIA ANDERSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- DELIA ANDERSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $123,095 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 families to learn, connect and succeed. Eoa helps low-income families succeed economically and socially by offering programs designed to address the roots of poverty and empower families to set and meet family goals.
What it reported doing in 2024
Social services - human services programs designed to foster an improvement in the quality of life for low-income children and families in northwest Arkansas. Social services assisted families with 7,229 cases of food through the emergency food assistance (commodities) program and 60 participants and their families through the step up economic stability program which empowers individuals to overcome obstacles that stand in the way of economic self-sufficiency.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 92% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 98.6%; rating input score 99
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 8 of 8 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: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2.9%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.58; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.4%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 98.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $8.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $123K · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.