Ohio Gas Association

Overview

Mission

The Ohio gas association (oga)is a natural gas trade organization which represents over 30 local distribution companies and cooperatives. Additionally the oga represents the vast majority of all intra and inter state gas transmission firms, as well as over 2 natural gas commodity marketers whose customers include residential, commercial, and industrial gas users. The oga was founded in 1971 and maintains its headquarters in the columbus area, location of the state capital. The work of the oga is performed through its chairman, president, board of trustees and 11 standing committees plus numerous ad hoc committees formed to deal with periodic short term issues. All committees meet on a regular basis and function as an information exchange for technical and operational support and to promote customer satisfaction, public safety and public awareness. Three primary functions of the association are to monitor and report on legislative, regulatory and compliance activities.

Operating model

Revenue model

Earned-program. 91% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.

Distribution model

Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

MIXED - 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: 0
• Transparency & Controls: 67
• Accountability: 81
• Sustainability: 40
• Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Details

• Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
• Governance: 19 of 20 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
• Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
• Leadership: top reported pay $162K · 20 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
• Consistency: 10 of 12 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
• Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
• Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
• Contacts: How to reach this organization
• Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
• Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
• 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.

• High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
• High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
• Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
• High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
• Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
• Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
• High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
• Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
• High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
• High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
• Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.