Outdoor Advertising Assn of IL Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
363774198
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Springfield, IL, USA
Phone
2175226224
Rating
48
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$99,890
Expenses
$168,184
Assets
$87,514
Liabilities
$5,726

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

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Jeff Burton (President)
  • Tony Mariani (Vice-President)
  • Rose Trader (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Jeff Burton (President)
  • Tony Mariani (Vice-President)
  • Martin Wynne (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Promote acceptance effectivness of outdoor advetising through marketing development, reasearch, information education. Advance common interests of those engaged in business of outdoor advertising, working with individuals, communities, organizations goverment.

What it reported doing in 2025

PUBLIC SERVICE PROGRAM - OAAI public service program is a statwide effort in which our member billboard comanies donate advertising space to qualifying organizations on order to communicate important messages to the monitoring public. OAAI has helped to promote 20 public service campains on behalf of American Heart Assn, IL Dept of Transportation, IL Dept of Natural Resources, Il Community Colleges, United Way and others to raise Heart Health Awareness, improve Road Construction Safety, promote Boat Safety, Education, Fireworks Safety, Foster Care, Elder Care, Breast Cancer, Prostrate Cancer, and Drug Awareness using 210 billboards. OAAI is the only organization within the State of Illinois that provides statewide promotional outdoor advertising support of issues intended to improve the quality of life, preventative health, environmental health, education and workers safety for the citizens of Illinois and elsewhere.These fund provide for legal defense of the OAAI members on issues that arise from advertizing.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 75% 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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 8
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 76
  • Sustainability: 25
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 10.8%; rating input score 11
  • Program expense ratio: 6.4%; rating input score 6
  • 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: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: -68.4%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.52; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -9.4% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -2.4% per year; rating input score 0; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 10.8% of revenue deployed · 6.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $11K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 24 of 25 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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 11/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 6/100.
  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 22/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.