Officers' Christian Fellowship

Legal name: Officers Christian Fellowship of the United

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
381415401
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Colorado Springs, CO, USA
Phone
3037611984
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Christianity
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$7,015,814
Expenses
$6,766,098
Assets
$23,406,657
Liabilities
$1,327,082

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

26 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • SCOTT FISHER (CHIEF EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • DALE HOLLAND (PRESIDENT)
  • ROBERT CRESPO (VICE PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • SCOTT FISHER (CHIEF EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $134,400 total reported compensation
  • DAVID PUNT (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $118,373 total reported compensation
  • CHESTER ARNOLD (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $103,766 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Our Mission is to engage military leaders in Biblical fellowship and growth to equip them for Christlike service at the intersection of faith, family, and profession. 4. Lay-led.** We are a lay-led movement of Christian officers within the U.S. Armed Forces. The central thrust of OCF is to motivate, equip, and support active duty, reserve component, and retired officers of all branches, and their spouses, to lead dynamic, Christ-centered ministries of outreach and service throughout the armed forces. While we gladly embrace the participation of military chaplains and other ordained individuals, we seek to capitalize upon the unique opportunity God gives to all officers to witness to and spiritually encourage their comrades-in-arms in the military society. The staff is kept relatively small, with a primary focus on motivating, equipping, and supporting the.

What it reported doing in 2024

Field minitries: ocf staff are located at the four service academies, at two key military installations, and in several geographic regions as coordinators. The purpose of having ocf staff in the field is to cast vision, to equip growing leaders, and to send leaders out as effective facilitators and trainers of future laborers of the gospel. At the academies, staff encourage and equip cadets and midshipmen to know and live out what it means to be a christ-follower serving in the military. This happens through leader development, bible study, discipleship/mentoring, conferences, retreats, and mission trips. Ocf also owns properties near the us military academy, us naval academy, and us coast guard academy. These homes allow an extraordinary level of hospitality to cadets, midshipmen, their families, and other guests. The staff located at maxwell-gunter, al, and leavenworth, ks, encourage and equip current and new members by counseling them, supporting them, and teaching them how to organize local fellowship groups throughout the military society. They also mentor christian military officers on how to practically integrate their faith and their military profession so that personal integrity and christlike leadership is maintained. The regional coordinators work with local leaders in their respective spheres of ministry, developing and sustaining relationships with ocf members, chaplains, and ministry co-laborers. These staff are instrumental in sustaining a strong, wide-reaching grassroots ministry to the vast mission field that is the us military.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 62% 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.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 79
  • Transparency & Controls: 86
  • Accountability: 97
  • Sustainability: 58
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 83.7%; rating input score 84
  • Program expense ratio: 86.3%; rating input score 86
  • Fundraising efficiency: $9.48 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 13th 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: 95.5%; rating input score 95; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 3.6%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.46; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 5.3%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site
  • Where the money goes: 83.7% of revenue deployed · 86.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 21 of 22 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $5.8M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $134K · 26 people listed
  • Consistency: 30 of 31 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2011 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 36/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 52/100.