Fairfax Industrial Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 480563271
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Kansas City, KS, USA
- Phone
- 9139152327
- Rating
- 51
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Business and Industry
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $88,025
- Expenses
- $82,470
- Assets
- $26,913
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MELISSA CLARK (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- TARA LAWS (PRESIDENT)
- PAUL NOBREGA (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MELISSA CLARK (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- TARA LAWS (PRESIDENT)
- PAUL NOBREGA (VICE PRESIDENT)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To promote cooperatively the interests and affairs of its members; assist in the establishment and maintenance of conditions within the fairfax industrial district (fid) in wyandotte county, ks; advantageous and beneficial to its members to take all necessary measures for the purpose of contesting, correcting, changing, avoiding, or eliminating conditions within the fid which might in any way be disastrous, disadvantageous, unnecessarily expensive, obnoxious or objectionable to its members or to the fid; provide a forum of its members for the interchange of ideas, methods and subjects of interest to its members and relevant to their inter-related ownerships, operations and business affairs; to promote the interest of the fid as a whole to the end that the same shall continue to grow and prosper and that all outside influences which contact the district shall be guided into channels that are to the interest and advantage of the district and of the association's membership.
What it reported doing in 2025
The fairfax industrial association hosted 10 events in 2025. These monthly events were luncheons and/or happy hour events and a fairfax festival. Fia also sponsored and served dinner to the Kansas city police athletic association. The purpose of the events is to network with other businesses in our area and keep members updated on various issues, concerns and projects that affect the businesses in this area. The luncheons or events typically fall on the second thursday of the month and feature a variety of keynote speakers and topics.
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 99% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 33
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 31.6%; rating input score 32
- Program expense ratio: 33.7%; rating input score 34
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.3%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.33; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 42.9%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -60.8% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -9.3% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 31.6% of revenue deployed · 33.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $28K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 32/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 34/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.