Greater Starkville Development Partnership
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 640940280
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Starkville, MS, USA
- Phone
- 6623233322
- Rating
- 63
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Business and Industry
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,012,979
- Expenses
- $925,244
- Assets
- $1,136,728
- Liabilities
- $12,168
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
31 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MIKE TAGERT (CEO)
People named in this filing
- STEVE LANGSTON (MEMBER)
- MICHELLE AMOS (MEMBER)
- SAMMY SLAUGHTER (VICE CHAIRMAN)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To ensure continued growth and prosperity in the city of starkville and oktibbeha county
What it reported doing in 2024
Foster economic and community development. Enhance the quality of life. Promote tourism and recruit retirees to relocate in the community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The program-spending lines do not add up, so the filing cannot show reliably whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 12
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.2%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 77.2%; rating input score 77
- 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 8.7%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.23; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.9% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72.2% of revenue deployed · 77.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 30 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $714K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 31 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.