Starbase Oklahoma Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 731445844
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2022
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022
- Location
- Tulsa, OK, USA
- Phone
- 9188337757
- Rating
- 53
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $45,052
- Expenses
- $40,559
- Assets
- $14,734
- Liabilities
- $49
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- Jim Cunningham (Director)
- Michelle K Napier EA (Treasurer)
- Bob Jandebeur (Chairman)
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 2022. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Programs to encourage the study of careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. The STEM Program provides students with instruction, materials and supplies in school districts throughout Oklahoma.
What it reported doing in 2022
Provide student programs to encourage the study of careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. Providing the materials, supplies Certified Teacher instruction in 107 school districts in Oklahoma.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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 voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 56
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 6
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 60.5%; rating input score 60
- Program expense ratio: 67.2%; rating input score 67
- 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.36; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -7.7% per year; rating input score 0; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -8.9% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -8.4% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 60.5% of revenue deployed · 67.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 3 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $27K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 13 of 14 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2011 to 2022
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.