Ours Brothers Keepers
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 882444436
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Columbus, OH, USA
- Phone
- 6148520617
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Centers to Support the Independence of Specific Populations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $574,832
- Expenses
- $572,178
- Assets
- $33,388
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- WILLIAM LINK (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- WILLIAM LINK (PRESIDENT)
- TJ MILLER (TREASURER)
- KESHA MYERS-BROWN (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We seek at-risk youth who are currently experiencing negative involvement with the justice system, trouble in school, and those who have an unstable family support system. We help them make a difference in becoming self- efficient, productive, purposeful citizens helping the community one step at a time, one life at a time. We aim to reunite and set the foundation to build a productive family unit., use direct intervention efforts that are culturally enriching to defuse potentially violent interactions. Our intervention efforts on changing the behavioral options of individuals who are prone to engage in potentially violent interactions. By connecting them with a life transition & intervention coordinator, who has lived through the obstacles that our youth currently face to assist them with navigating their life choices. And by teaching and learning from each other how to make our community better and bring the family back together. Our life transition & intervention coordinator provide
What it reported doing in 2024
Provided mentoring and leadership services to 250 plus students through out the public school system. Provided temporary housing for 25 young adults, provided warming center services for homeless during the winter months, 150 mental health assestments for 90 students and families. Provided meals to students enrolled in obk programming. Helped 50 students start and register their own business with the state of Ohio. Provided summer employment for 50 teens.
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 89% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.6%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 96%; rating input score 96
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 0.5%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.06; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 35.2% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 27.7% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 95.6% of revenue deployed · 96% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $549K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.