Ohio Urban Community Action Network

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
311297181
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2019
Location
Worthington, OH, USA
Phone
2169527891
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$195,827
Expenses
$188,399
Assets
$295,303
Liabilities
$94,985

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • YVONNE CHERELL (CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • YVONNE CHERELL (CEO): $90,624 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 mission of oucan is to empower Ohio's urban community action agencies through education, networking, and advocate for policies that alleviate and promote self-sufficiency.

What it reported doing in 2025

1. Strengthen the agencys leadership and infrastructure: support ceos efforts to lead the network through day-to-day operations, leadership, representation, public policy, and advocacy. 2. Amplify training curriculum and compliance: with changes in membership and an influx of new board members and staff, the training curriculum will expand to non-oucan caas and increase in csbg compliance areas - roma, organizational standards and board governance. 3. Coordinate and implement new strategic planning process for 2025-2027: oucan is one of ohios leading resources in the fight against poverty and part of the social service ecosystem helping families and residents in becoming self-sufficient. 4. Develop and complete new statewide poverty impact report: oucan will use research to advocate for career and workforce development, safe and affordable childcare, and lead-free and affordable housing. 5. Expand the network's communications and marketing peso: in two years, oucans communications manager significantly increased website, twitter, facebook, and constant contact engagement. Members and partners receive regular updates on training, announcements, and agency news. 6. Board governance & succession planning: strengthen board governance and management through information technology and purpose-driven leadership and succession planning. 7. Advocacy and public policy: amplify oucans voice in the states public policy and legislative process through community partnerships, advocacy engagement and leadership. 8. Community and leadership: illustrate oucans unique leadership as the nations oldest urban caa network in local, state, and national platforms. 9. Financial health and sustainability: increase operating budget through diverse revenue streams, reduce business risks and product expansion and access. 10. Member benefits and programming: strengthen and expand oucans training curriculum and events utilizing high-performing framework models, knowledgeable experts and aligning content and materials around clear performance objectives, strategic goals, and measurable outcomes.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 69
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 79
  • Sustainability: 38
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 75.6%; rating input score 76
  • Program expense ratio: 78.5%; rating input score 79
  • 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: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 3.8%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.57; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.32; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 48.1%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -13.4% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 75.6% of revenue deployed · 78.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $148K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $91K · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 44/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.