Oklahoma Agriculture Mediation Program
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 273542250
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2009
- Location
- Oklahoma City, OK, USA
- Phone
- 4055213934
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Dispute Resolution, Mediation Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $217,000
- Expenses
- $217,000
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Michael Mayberry (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Michael Mayberry (President): $81,614 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Form 990, Part II, line 1: OAMP assists agricultural producers, their lenders, and other persons directly affected by the actions of the USDA to resolve disputes. As authorized by the Agricultiral Credit Act of 1987, 7 U.S.C. 5501 and the USDA Reorganization Act of 1994, 7 U.S.C. 6901, OAMP mediation services include wetland determinations, compliance with farm programs (including conservation programs), agricultural credit, rural water loan programs, grazing on national forest lands, pesticides, and other isses that the Secretary of USDA considers appropriate. Oklahoma law gives OAMP specific authority to provide "mediation services to all individuals, businesses, and state and federal agencies that are engaged in production agriculturally or environmentally-relate activites" 2 O.S. 2-20(B)Form 990, Part III, Line 1: OAMP assists agricultural producers, their tenders, and other persons directly affected by the actions of the USDA to resolve disputes. As authorized by the Agricultural
What it reported doing in 2024
Mediation services are provided free of charge to the producer, who initiates the request for mediation with OAMP. OAMP outreach activities reach people through events, speaking, training, brochures and state wide radio advertising. Regularly attended events include: Oklahoma Banker's Conference, Oklahoma Cattlemen's Conference, Women in Agriculture and Small Business Conference, Horticulture Industies Show, Plasticulture Seminar, AFRMIC Annual Conference, OK Farm Bureaus Annual Conference, Farm Credit State Loan Officers Meeting, Ag Day at the State Capitol, Tulsa Enid and Oklahoma City Farm Shows.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 100% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 53
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 60%; rating input score 60
- Program expense ratio: 60%; rating input score 60
- 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: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: 0%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 37.6%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.5% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -31% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 60% of revenue deployed · 60% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 6 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $130K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $82K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- 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.
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.