Economic Opportunity Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 486120518
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Kansas City, KS, USA
- Phone
- 9133717800
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $566,403
- Expenses
- $581,551
- Assets
- $264,974
- Liabilities
- $101,398
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RICHARD MABION (BOARD PRESIDENT)
- JACQUES BARBER (VICE PRESIDENT)
- RITA D ADAMS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- RITA D ADAMS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $79,456 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The economic opportunity foundation is a non-for-profit community action agency whose mission is to mobilize necessary resources to address the causes and conditions of poverty in wyandotte county to assist low-income residents in moving towards self-sufficiency.
What it reported doing in 2025
Direct customer services - eof receives direct funding primarily from the federal community services block grant (csbg funds passed through the state) to provide direct services to eligible low-income customers. Services provided during the agency's fiscal year ending march 31, 2026 included: 1) emergency assistance - which helps families obtain needed supports, such as utility and rent assistance and mortgage default counseling/direct assistance to address emergency situations. 2) employment services and supports which helps unemployed individuals with job preparation and placement assistance as well as employment suports such as assistance with transportation needs, work tools, uniforms, work boots, 3) case management services - which helps low- income individuals and/or families work on economic self-sufficiency and goal achievement, 4) senior commodity distribution - which provides food from the seven food groups to elderly and disabled individuals, and 5) housing services - which helps low-income individuals address current homelessness or helps those at risk of becoming homeless. During the 2025 fiscal year ending march 31, 2026 - eof served 632 individuals.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 63% for direct work, and 37% for grants.
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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.6%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 84.4%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $34.72 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
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: 100%; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2.7%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.46; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.38; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.7%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.6% of revenue deployed · 84.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $491K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $79K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 28/100.