One Collective
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 366069820
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Elgin, IL, USA
- Phone
- 8474290900
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Relief
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $14,401,802
- Expenses
- $14,459,934
- Assets
- $4,840,679
- Liabilities
- $815,073
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SCOTT OLSON (CEO/PRESIDENT)
- SCOTT WHITE (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- SCOTT OLSON (CEO/PRESIDENT): $211,090 total reported compensation
- JON STEPPE (EXECUTIVE VP/CFO/TEASURER): $170,613 total reported compensation
- SCOTT WHITE (VICE PRESIDENT): $121,740 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
One Collective is a global non-profit that brings people together around the ways of Jesus to create lasting change in our world today. One Collective's strategy begins in “Communities” which represent smaller-sized geographical locations (like a neighborhood of a city) - or contexts where a particular need/people group is present (eg; at-risk youth, refugees). Work in communities is led by leaders we call "Catalysts" who act like general contractors - working with local leaders to find solutions that bring together the needs and strengths of a specific community. Local strategy is backed by a global network of leadership support - empowering leaders with access to strategic resources and shared solutions.
What it reported doing in 2024
Evangelism, church planting, relief and development - we continue the holistic work of jesus through disciple-making, compassion, relief, and development. We are committed to bringing hope, dignity, and wholeness to communities that have been negatively impacted by economic, physical, and spiritual oppression. We bring local and outside resources together to create partnerships that serve and strengthen oppressed communities. Our primary purpose is that no one would be invisible and everyone would have access to food, freedom, and forgiveness.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 78% for direct work, and 22% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 53
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.5%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 80%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $17.87 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Pass
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 71%; rating input score 71; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.4%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.33; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.17; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.4%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4.6% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 80.5% of revenue deployed · 80% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 9 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $11.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $211K · 15 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $222K reported
- Consistency: 37 of 38 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 6 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 54/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 40/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.