Safety City of Marion Ohio

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
311749094
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Marion, OH, USA
Phone
7403875019
Rating
55
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Safety Education

Reported finances

Revenue
$65,760
Expenses
$70,450
Assets
$278,041
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Kevin Smith (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Kevin Smith (Executive Director)
  • Kathy Cleveland (Officer)
  • James R Cleveland (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

Safety education for county kindergarten students at no additional expense to students, families or participating schools.

What it reported doing in 2025

Supplied classroom material and equipment to provide safety class to local kindergarten students as part of a week-long program. Number of students: 700. In addition, typically provide Safety education to others through any available county safety and health fairs (up to 600 additional participants a year).

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 93% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 22
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 47
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 23.8%; rating input score 24
  • Program expense ratio: 19.2%; rating input score 19

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: -7.1%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.95; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 53.2%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -5.6% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -1.2% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 23.8% of revenue deployed · 19.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $14K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 24/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 19/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.