Tall Oaks Coaching
Legal name: Tall Oaks Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 611975741
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Edmond, OK, USA
- Phone
- (572) 240-6655
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $821,529
- Expenses
- $720,487
- Assets
- $433,747
- Liabilities
- $700
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ross Hill (President)
Highest reported compensation
- David Gadberry (Director): $59,500 total reported compensation
- Ross Hill (President): $46,900 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Tall Oaks Coaching empowers ministry leaders and their spouses through Christ-centered coaching that deepens their walk with the Lord, renews their strength, and equips them to lead with clarity, courage, and lasting impact. Never Walk Alone:** Standing beside leaders in every season - offering guidance, support, and prayer. Confidentiality:** Providing a sacred space where leaders can speak freely, be fully known, and experience healing and hope. Authenticity:** Creating a culture of grace-filled honesty that invites vulnerability and fosters meaningful growth. Honor:** Honoring each leader’s story, calling, and spiritual journey - recognizing their God-given worth and potential. Transformation: Walking alongside leaders through change and growth - believing God redeems every chapter for His glory. Rest and Renewal: Encouraging spiritual rest, soul care, and sustainable rhythms that...
What it reported doing in 2025
Organization successfully provided coaching for numerous pastors and ministers throughout 2025.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 73% 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
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 some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.8%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 95.6%; 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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 12.3%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.6; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14.8%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 32.7% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 28% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.9% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 83.8% of revenue deployed · 95.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $689K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $60K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 19 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.