Outdoor Shooting Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 262229062
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2012
- Forms available
- Form 990 2012
- Location
- Birmingham, MI, USA
- Phone
- 2489824600
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Natural Resources Conservation and Protection
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $946,249
- Expenses
- $1,434,217
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2012. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2012. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To promote hunting, shooting, outdoor sports, and conservation through land access, education, research and wildlife enhancement.
What it reported doing in 2012
Hunter education/safety - outdoor shooting foundation is helping to continue the heritage of hunting worldwide by developing safe, responsible and knowledgeable hunters' by launching the hunter safety course to a web-based learning format to make it easier for youth who are internet-savvy to take their hunter education course that is required to purchase a hunting license. Outdoor shooting foundation worked with input from 15 jurisdictional agencies, industry leading firearm and ammunition manufacturers, industry writers and journalists, former hunter education students, conservation wardens, law enforcement professionals, phd's and university professors, instructors (volunteers and employed by state agencies), hunter education coordinators and safety education administrators from USA, canada, peru, south africa, and new zealand to begin development of a first in class student hunter on-line program and off-line printed manual with the objective of customizing the program to meet the specific requirements for each individual state's requirements. The curriculum is designed to help develop knowledge, skills and attitudes about: - safe, legal and ethical hunting - north america's hunting heritage - principles and practices of wildlife conservation - the role hunters play in wildlife conservationsuccessful completion of the course results in safe, responsible, well-informed and involved hunters and continues the heritage and tradition of hunting in the united states that helped found this country.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 23
- Sustainability: 2
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Pass
- 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: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 98.8%; rating input score 99; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -51.6%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 28%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 0 of 4 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 6 filed program accomplishments · $1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $6.5M · 11 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 25 of 26 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 4 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.