Illinois Tactical Officers' Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 363624189
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2020
- Location
- Homer Glen, IL, USA
- Phone
- 8156666419
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $986,898
- Expenses
- $961,301
- Assets
- $406,852
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- EDWARD MOHN (PRESIDENT)
- RICKEY SMITH (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- RANDY MEYERS (EXECTIVE DIRECTOR): $35,000 total reported compensation
- RICKEY SMITH (VICE PRESIDENT): $16,000 total reported compensation
- SHANNON DEUEL (DIRECTOR): $5,250 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
This association has been established to advance the education and professionalism of law enforcement officers involved in critical incident operations and emergency response functions through the exchange of ideas and information relating to tactics, techniques, and to further the networking and interrelation of departments and personnel. It will also provide information about the association's activities to other interested police agencies, organizations, and units of government that share and support law enforcement and have common goals and objectives of the association.in this way, the Illinois tactical officers association (itoa) endeavours to increase the professional knowledge and skills of the law enforcement community to better serve and respond to the needs of the communities they serve. (update bylaws approved and adopted november 2024)
What it reported doing in 2025
Trained approximately 597 law enforcement personnel at the annual training conference as well as 56 chiefs or other command personnel at the annual chief's symposium, meeting of 51 active threat master instructors already certified, and meeting of approximately 30 tactical team leaders from Illinois agencies. All training occurred as part of the annual training conference. Total trained: 734
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 97% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.7%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 83.9%; rating input score 84
- 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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 27th 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: 2.6%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.42; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.4%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81.7% of revenue deployed · 83.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 13 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $806K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $35K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 47/100.