Fields & Futures Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 464569055
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2013
- Location
- Oklahoma City, OK, USA
- Phone
- 4056069550
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,828,976
- Expenses
- $2,613,632
- Assets
- $10,154,600
- Liabilities
- $782,827
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TIM MCLAUGHLIN (PRESIDENT)
- DAVID GRIFFIN (VICE PRESIDENT)
- DAVID CRYNES (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- DAVID CRYNES (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $113,215 total reported compensation
- TED PERRY (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $27,692 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Igniting success - one field, one coach, one student at a time
What it reported doing in 2024
Empower programa commitment to providing programs that distribute resources and information to the 265+ coaches within the okcps district. In our efforts to reduce the turnover rate of coaching positions, the organization has developed programs to aid in the professional development of coaches. Since 2013, the organization has underwritten and organized three coaching clinics per year: covering fall, winter, and spring sports. Outside of skilled clinicians teaching advanced lessons to coaches. The coaching clinics provide a platform for community partners and agencies to participate in break-out sessions to share critical information not always accessible on the respective campuses.we provide sports camps, clinics, summer programming, unique athletic experiences and program support to increase student participation across the district. In addition, we support local urban core youth sports programs and leagues to increase their participation to insure a growing stream of youth into okcps middle school and high school teams. More kids on more teams is our goal and maximizes our impact.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 64% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 77% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 51
- Transparency & Controls: 89
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 77
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 44.2%; rating input score 44
- Program expense ratio: 56.4%; rating input score 56
- Fundraising efficiency: $32.95 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 95%; rating input score 95; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- 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 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 31.7%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.89; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.4%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.3% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 44.2% of revenue deployed · 56.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $113K · 7 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $189K reported
- Consistency: 37 of 38 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 20 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 18 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 44/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 56/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 51/100.