The Buckeye Ranch
Legal name: The Buckeye Ranch Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 310642111
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Whitehall, OH, United States
- Phone
- (614) 875-2371
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Group Homes
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $81,605,026
- Expenses
- $75,785,514
- Assets
- $77,679,547
- Liabilities
- $22,675,071
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
39 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- VICKIE THOMPSON-SANDY (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- VICKIE THOMPSON-SANDY (PRESIDENT & CEO): $543,384 total reported compensation
- DR PATRICIA GENTILE (PSYCHIATRIST): $305,201 total reported compensation
- CHRISTINA MASSEY (EXECUTIVE VP PROGRAM): $212,689 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Restoring Hope is our mission. At The Buckeye Ranch, our journey towards transforming lives is guided by a dedicated and compassionate group of individuals who make up The Buckeye Ranch Board of Trustees. Comprising accomplished professionals, community leaders, and advocates, our Board plays a vital role in steering our mission to provide exceptional behavioral and mental health services for children, youth, and families. Leadership Team Contact Us. Residential Treatment Services are our most intensive level of care for children and their families. Services are offered at our secure Grove City campus, where youth are provided mental health care; individual, group, and family therapy; physical and nutritional healthcare; social emotional coping skill support; and on-site education through Southwestern City Schools. We have two different programs on our campus: Qualified Residential...
What it reported doing in 2024
The buckeye ranch is a community behavioral health agency committed to raising hope and restoring healing. Throughout our continuum of care, we serve children, youth and their families who may have experienced abuse, neglect and trauma. Youth may be experiencing disruption from their families, homes, communities and/or schools and facing challenges such as depression, anxiety and/or other mental illness or behavioral disorders. The buckeye ranch's continuum includes: mental health services, child welfare services and education. Continued on schedule othe buckeye ranch mental health service line is committed to evidence-based practices through a full continuum of services ranging from outpatient and community-based programs to higher levels of care including educational day treatment and residential treatment. The buckeye ranch child welfare service line offers permanent family solutions network (pfsn), an innovative child welfare program that strives to meet the needs of each family through family centered prevention and case management services, or placement in a community partner or within the continuum of ranch programs, if needed. Additionally, the buckeye ranch has a robust foster care program and transitional aged youth program including my place and bridges. The buckeye ranch education program includes the bonner academies, integrating education and intensive mental health treatment for middle and high school students with behavioral/psychological disorders and their families, to reduce barriers to learning and education. In addition to the academies, the buckeye ranch has an extensive somali community education program through the use of somali-speaking interpreters and trained staff, we provide support for somali youth and families struggling with symptoms related to loss, trauma, and resettlement, as well as issues common to the process of merging two or more cultures. This program also connects somali families to community resources specific to their needs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 92% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.7%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 90%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.03 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 6 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.1%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.02; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.29; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 10 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 83.7% of revenue deployed · 90% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 16 of 16 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $68.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $543K · 39 people listed · 6 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $169K reported
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 35/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 37/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 57/100.