Ohio Seed Improvement Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 314379745
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025
- Location
- Croton, OH, USA
- Phone
- 6148891136
- Rating
- 51
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $235,779
- Expenses
- $263,716
- Assets
- $1,332,067
- Liabilities
- $66,859
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CRIS WENSINK (VICE PRESIDENT)
- DON GRIMES (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ERIC GROLL (CHIEF INSPECTOR): $73,902 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To promote and facilitate the movement of seed or plant products in local, national, and international markets through the coordinated efforts of official seed certificaton agencies to verify that seed or plant products meet certain accepted standards.
What it reported doing in 2025
Education program - provide quarterly newsletter to educate about changes in certified seed industry (and an annual conference)
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 70% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 46
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 16
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 48.6%; rating input score 49
- Program expense ratio: 57%; rating input score 57
- 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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -11.8%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.05; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 28%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -10.5% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6.4% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 48.6% of revenue deployed · 57% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 4 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $150K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $74K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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: Mission deployment rate scored 49/100.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 57/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.