Oil Region Alliance of Business Industry & Tourism
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 251118284
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Oil City, PA, USA
- Phone
- 8004836264
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Community Coalitions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,520,411
- Expenses
- $2,350,188
- Assets
- $8,791,134
- Liabilities
- $6,302,092
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOHN PHILLIPS (PRESIDENT/COO)
Highest reported compensation
- JOHN PHILLIPS (PRESIDENT/COO): $130,618 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Manage the oil region national heritage area in northwestern Pennsylvania including economic and community development, tourism and recreation
What it reported doing in 2024
In 2024, the oil region alliance completed finishes and flooring at the historic william h scheide house to ready it for first floor occupancy; leased the first floor of the downs building and submitted grants for upper story affordable residentisl housing; acquired the levi building, incubating a retail business and securing the upper stories for development of affordable housing; invigorated programming at the tarbell house and installed a new heating system to improve sustainability; constructed a raingarden and native pollinator project at the coal oil johnny house; completed diversity and cultural resources studies; launched a wayfinding study of the oil region national heritage area; advertised extensively through print and digital campaigns; presented annual oir region tourism awards; supported marketing and hospitality for multiple conferences and special events in the oil region; continued efforts with a property owner to develop and fund a new access to the allegheny river; continued to develop additional mileage on the east branch and erie to pittsburgh trails; continued management of the allegheny wild and scenic river pa water trail; continued work on the atv trail feasibility study, partnered pa fish and boat commision to assume control of fisherman's cove for maintenance and opgrades; assessed brownfields in th oil region utilizing a community-wide assessment grant from the epa; received an epa clean-up gtant to remediate the kraft and dahlstrom properties; negotiated to acquire the jm eagle brownfield site for assessment and redevelopment; postured from assessment to remediation at the fuch's site using industrial sites reuse program funding; joined with the oil city redevelopment authority in a joint venture to demolish a blighted hotel and prepare for a new development; supported a non=pofit in its effort to launch the lyric theater renovation project; leased (with the goal of transfer in 2025) the pennwest-venango campus which ceased operations in june 2024, and acquired the adjacent student apartments to support education, training, tourism, recreation and heritage programming; housed the oil city main street program, including including the arts oil city revitalization effort snd continued management of the arts floor located in the historic national transit building with the goal of maintaining affordable studio space and a downtown artist hub.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 82.2%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: $11.16 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 78.6%; rating input score 79; 0th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -54.6%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.74; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.72; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.6%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.5% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 82.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $131K · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 28 current checks pass · 4 findings to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Fund balance restriction sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX DepreciationDepletion column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D other liabilities reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 52/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.