For Oak Cliff
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 813768369
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Dallas, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2142578570
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Neighborhood Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,839,085
- Expenses
- $2,637,392
- Assets
- $4,370,647
- Liabilities
- $250,187
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TAYLOR TOYNES (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- TAYLOR TOYNES (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $162,985 total reported compensation
- XAVIER HENDERSON (CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER): $140,334 total reported compensation
- AMBER HARTFIELD (DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS): $112,706 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To liberate oak cliff from systemic oppression through a culture of education, while increasing social mobility and social capital.
What it reported doing in 2024
Community building: for oak cliff serves as the collective impact backbone for the 75216 superblock neighborhood. Advocacy programs, such as rent and utility assistance, help to support our community members who need us the most. Community building programming and events include the following: summer camp - in 2024, for the first time, foc partnered with the city of dallas discover dallas summer camp to serve 80 students. The summer camp, held at our community campus, focused on academic enrichment to prevent summer learning loss for all campers. Brighter bites provided weekly fresh produce bags. Valued at over $80,000 in free programming, foc was able to contribute educational (continued on schedule o) resources, healthy snacks, volunteers, a safe learning space, and more through this partnership.for oak cliffmas - each holiday season, for oak cliff hosts their annual cliffmas skate party - a night filled with food, skating, and toy giveaways. In 2024, foc provided over $5,000 of toys given away in total value. Teen ambassadors - the todd middle school ambassador program aims to improve and develop the character of students in the community to ensure young people of oak cliff have the knowledge, help and resources to reach their full potential as successful, passionate, and healthy leaders.teen workforce initiative - the for oak cliff teen internship program provides opportunities for student engagement and experiential learning in the oak cliff community. In the summer of 2024, for oak cliff offered students a summer internship program designed to empower teens by providing them with opportunities for personal and professional growth. During this time, a supportive environment is provided where teens can explore their identities and understand how they can contribute to the world. They develop essential skills in innovation, teamwork, and leadership which ultimately help foster academic, physical, and mental development, preparing them as young leaders for future challenges. There is also an element of community impact. By cultivating positive communities, the foc teen internship aims to nurture the next generation of leaders, inspiring them to make meaningful contributions to society. Phlebotomy - methodist health system started the methodist community collaborative to serve the 75216 zip code. Foc became a key partner and a major offering in this collaboration is the phlebotomy workforce training program, a free twelve-week phlebotomy course for community members. Students graduate from the program earning a certification in phlebotomy, resulting in gaining employment after the program.aquatics - the foc pool brings free aquatics program opportunities to the superblock community, expanding accessibility which has traditionally lacked for the 75216 community in the 21st century. Traditionally, these spaces are consistently mismanaged and inadequately maintained. Subsequently, there is a lack of participation in aquatics which has hindered the community from learning basic life skills such as swimming. According to the us swimming foundation, 79% of kids from low-income families are at risk of drowning. As only one of two pools in the superblock, foc aims to provide state-of-the-art, safe space amenities so that members can access free resources such as aquatics that are basic life-transferable skills. In 2024, foc engaged over 655 summer aquatics attendees and trained over 80 participants through our free swim lesson program.events: juneteenth celebration - highlighted by a 6-foot-tall juneteenth history book outlining the juneteenth timeline, this annual celebration includes family-friendly activities with free food, games, live music, water slide and bounce houses as well as an on-site job fair and educational activities. Back-to-school - foc's annual back-to-school festival is a vessel to equip the community and students with the necessary supplies, resources, and service providers to have a successful school year. In 20
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 60
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 86
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 61.7%; rating input score 62
- Program expense ratio: 68.8%; rating input score 69
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.65 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd 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: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.1%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.66; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.8%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.2% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.9% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 61.7% of revenue deployed · 68.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $163K · 16 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $246K reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 20/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.