Muskogee County Community Action Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 730754419
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2020
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020
- Location
- Muskogee, OK, US
- Phone
- (918) 686-8004
- Rating
- 61
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $619,372
- Expenses
- $317,502
- Assets
- $8,264,857
- Liabilities
- $295,969
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- James Ezzell (Executive Director)
- Rich Schaus (Board of Directors' Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- James Ezzell (Executive Director): $89,500 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Muskogee County Community Action Foundation, Inc. (MCCAF) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) social service agency dedicated to assisting low to moderate income individuals and families, to improve their quality of life and achieve a better standard of living by providing quality affordable housing.
What it reported doing in 2020
Housing-acquire and rehabilitate single family housing units for rental to low-income families and provide support for low-income housing projects.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 88% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 67% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 30
- Transparency & Controls: 88
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 80
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 29.2%; rating input score 29
- Program expense ratio: 42.8%; rating input score 43
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 97.2%; rating input score 97; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 48.7%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 26.03; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 28.2%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 29.2% of revenue deployed · 42.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $136K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $90K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 44 of 45 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes grants
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 29/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 43/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.