Orion Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 431877784
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2011
- Location
- Springfield, MO, USA
- Phone
- 5732800532
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Museum, Museum Activities
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,689
- Expenses
- $14,275
- Assets
- $236,546
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- William Mundhausen (President)
People named in this filing
- William Mundhausen (President)
- John Maronne (Board Member)
- Penny Maronne (Board Member)
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
Orion Center is a community educational organization whose mission is to promote the free exchange of ideas while championing a Biblical Christian worldview.
What it reported doing in 2025
Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM broadcasted 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with talk format addressing community needs and national content.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 96.3%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 43.9%; rating input score 44
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -113.4%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 16.57; rating input score 95; 95th 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: 21.7% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 96.3% of revenue deployed · 43.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $6K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 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 — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 44/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.