Oneonta Business Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 450966313
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Oneonta, AL, USA
- Phone
- 2058137194
- Rating
- 49
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $44,031
- Expenses
- $23,322
- Assets
- $31,467
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GREG BROWN (PRESIDENT)
- JACK BAINS (VICE-PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- GREG BROWN (PRESIDENT)
- JACK BAINS (VICE-PRESIDENT)
- TARA MURPHREE (SECRETARY)
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
The oneonta business association is a 501(c)(6) non-profit. All-volunteer organization comprised of individuals, merchants, property owners, and advocates who are working together to sustain a dynamic, vital, and diverse community through marketing, events, tourism, economic development, and leadership.
What it reported doing in 2025
The mission to advance all local oneonta businesses and their promotion through marketing, events, tourism, economic development, and leadership. As a non-profit organization, the oba is dedicated to championing the growth and enrichment of businesses within the city of oneonta by providing opportunities for sharing information, networking and education; by fostering a sense of community among its members, by improving the business climate for its members by monitoring state and local legislative and agency actions which impact its members while providing a forum for dialogue between its members and opinion leaders, legislators, other interest groups and the general public; and by promoting public awareness of the contribution of its members to the economic, physical and social vitality of the city of oneonta community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 60% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 11
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 72
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 7.9%; rating input score 8
- Program expense ratio: 14.9%; rating input score 15
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: 47%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.35; rating input score 55; 55th 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: -4.8% per year; rating input score 0; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.4% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -12.1% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 7.9% of revenue deployed · 14.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 8/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 15/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.