Northwestern Ohio Community Action Commi
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 340971599
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025
- Location
- Defiance, OH, USA
- Phone
- 4197842150
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Neighborhood Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $12,576,498
- Expenses
- $12,337,839
- Assets
- $6,323,872
- Liabilities
- $3,342,474
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANGELA FRANKLIN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- MARK HOLTSBERRY (PRESIDENT)
- TIFFANY ROCKHOLD (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ANGELA FRANKLIN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $127,457 total reported compensation
- KYLEE HARROW (FINANCE DIRECTOR): $97,255 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The purpose and function of nocac is to plan, develop, and coordinate programs and services to combat poverty for the residents of defiance, fulton, henry, paulding, van wert and williams counties. Nocac works on behalf of low-income people to attain skills necessary to become self-sufficient.
What it reported doing in 2025
Community services made 10,338 payments for utilities, rent, food, gasoline, prescriptions, or employment-related needs on behalf of low-income households. The soup kitchen served 6,659 meals to low-income individuals. It also provided 765 units of transportation to consumers and for food donation pickup. Usda food commodities were distributed to 641 unduplicated low-income households. Emergency shelter rooms housed 153 homeless individuals for 5,368 nights. Thirty households who were homeless had payments made toward rent, rent arrearages, deposits and/or utility bills. Financial coaching classes were given to 119 clients and 40 people attended financial literacy classes. Digitial navigation support was provided to 171 individuals. Payments for car repair were provided for 37 individuals. Applications for 2,405 low-income customers were processed resulting in an affordable income-based utility payment plan. Two hundred and sixty four air conditioners and 151 fans were distributed to eligible households.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 95% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 88% 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: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 85
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.7%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 91.2%; rating input score 91
- 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: 99.8%; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 90%; rating input score 90; 19th 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: 1.9%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.51; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.53; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.8%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 89.7% of revenue deployed · 91.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 18 of 20 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $11.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $127K · 20 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 5 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.