On the Ground Impact

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
883436470
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Auburn Hills, MI, USA
Phone
5172813666
Rating
95
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Public Foundations

Reported finances

Revenue
$59,748
Expenses
$62,329
Assets
$2,818
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • AARON THORNBURG (PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR)

People named in this filing

  • AARON THORNBURG (PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR)
  • MONIKA GOFORTH (VP AND DIRECTOR)
  • NADINE PIRKER (TREASURER AND DIRECTOR)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Provide financial and other support to community organizations located with and within the united states in order to improve the quality of life of marginalized groups and communities. The support provided by the organization is intended to advance efforts to alleviate poverty and social inequality and also to preserve and protect the environment for the benefit of the public.

What it reported doing in 2025

Capacity building - on the ground impact may also provide non-monetary support such as educating, training and providing technical assistance to other nonprofits that undertake efforts to alleviate poverty and social inequality and to preserve and protect the environment, which furthers on the ground impact's exempt purpose of improving the quality of life of marginalized groups and communities by bolstering the capability of nonprofits to assist such groups and communities. Capacity building support will be provided by on the ground impact officers, directors and employees or through third parties that it engages to provide such support.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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 filed totals do not add up and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 98
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 34
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 98.8%; rating input score 99
  • Program expense ratio: 94.7%; rating input score 95

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -4.3%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.05; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 48.3% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -87.6% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 98.8% of revenue deployed · 94.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $59K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.