Ohio Nurses Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 314271640
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Columbus, OH, USA
- Phone
- 6149693800
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,336,989
- Expenses
- $4,765,002
- Assets
- $5,209,515
- Liabilities
- $552,944
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RICK LUCAS (PRESIDENT)
- JACINTA TUCKER (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- RICK LUCAS (PRESIDENT): $197,279 total reported compensation
- ROBERT COUSINS (DEO, LABOR RELATIONS PARTIAL TERM): $183,167 total reported compensation
- ANNE RANSONE (DEO, OPERATIONS PARTIAL TERM): $170,197 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To advance professional nursing in Ohio. This will be accomplished through: evolving evidence-based practice, influencing legislators, promoting education, improving economic and general welfare, advocating for quality health care in a cost effective and economically stimulating manner
What it reported doing in 2024
Health policy: ona advocates for professional nursing practice for registered nurses and for quality health care for ohioans in governmental arenas. Ona communicated with members of the Ohio general assembly and executive branch on issues affecting nursing and safe nursing practice. Ona advocated for legislation to address workplace violence against nurses, to remove unnecessary barriers to nursing practice, provide adequate funding for health care programs and nursing services, protect the economic and general welfare and collective bargaining rights of registered nurses, promote public health and improve patient safety. Ona also worked to ensure nursing representation on and participation in various health and care related initiatives.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 96% 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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 60
- Accountability: 96
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: No; rating input score 0
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 23rd 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: 10.7%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.09; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 16.4%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 13 of 14 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $197K · 18 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $130K reported
- Consistency: 11 of 12 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Related-party transparency scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 57/100.