Jumpstart Ohio

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
871469019
IRS 990 coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Lebanon, OH, USA
Phone
5132283036
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Rehabilitation Services for Offenders
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$208,416
Expenses
$299,078
Assets
$334,754
Liabilities
$50,639

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MARCUS SHEANSHANG (PRESIDENT)
  • MATT HUNNELL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (START 10/20))
  • BRIAN MOLL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (RESIGNED 8/15))

Highest reported compensation

  • BRIAN MOLL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (RESIGNED 8/15)): $65,117 total reported compensation
  • MATT HUNNELL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (START 10/20)): $24,615 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

In partnership with donors, churches and community partners, we are discipling the incarcerated and assisting returning citizens with re-entry services

What it reported doing in 2025

The outside program will provide a safe and stable environment for people in transition after incarceration. This 12-month christ-centered program will offer our participants: low-cost, safe, and stable housing, individual case management, access to physical, mental, and dental healthcare, transportation to service providers, employment, and shopping, permanent and meaningful employment at a living wage, financial stability training, a recovery program for chemical dependency, individual mentoring, community engagement. Healthy recreational activities, spiritual growth opportunities.

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 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.
  • 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 74
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 79
  • Sustainability: 19
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 94%; rating input score 94
  • Program expense ratio: 65.3%; rating input score 65
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • 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: -43.5%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.12; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 30%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 94.2% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -24% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 94% of revenue deployed · 65.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $195K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $65K · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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: 3 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.