Growth Organization of Topekashawnee Co
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 481227900
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Topeka, KS, USA
- Phone
- 7852342644
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,933,459
- Expenses
- $4,616,807
- Assets
- $23,142,480
- Liabilities
- $19,071,824
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
44 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MOLLY HOWEY (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- MOLLY HOWEY (PRESIDENT): $204,705 total reported compensation
- JOSHUA PATTERSON (CFO): $123,500 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Go topeka creates county-wide economic success for all companies and citizens through implementation of an aggressive economic development strategy that capitalizes on the unique strengths of the community.
What it reported doing in 2024
Go topeka understands in order to provide a quality workforce, focus must be placed not only on workforce development, but on talent attraction, employee retention, and diversity, equity and inclusion. Talent initiatives focus on growing, retaining and attracting talent and educating our current community members to ensure a competitive future workforce for topeka and shawnee county. We develop and grow partnerships between community members, businesses, and schools, from early childhood education to post-secondary institutions; ensuring that education and training providers are well-aligned and have the resources they need to prepare the community's residents of all ages for college and careers.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 84% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 66
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- 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: 69.1%; rating input score 69; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: 6.4%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.01; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.82; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.5%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -3.3% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 42 of 42 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $205K · 44 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 12 of 13 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 15 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 21 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 54/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.