The Findlay-Hancock County Community Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 341713261
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Findlay, OH, US
- Phone
- (419) 425-1100
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $30,972,257
- Expenses
- $8,129,526
- Assets
- $195,029,537
- Liabilities
- $7,809,287
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRIAN TREECE (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- BRIAN TREECE (PRESIDENT & CEO): $184,378 total reported compensation
- RICHARD BROWN (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $166,804 total reported compensation
- KIMBERLY BASH (COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT OFFICER): $121,604 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To connect donors with community needs and support local nonprofits through grants and programs.
What it reported doing in 2024
Grantmaking organization: as a community foundation for the entire county, the organization funds a wide range of initiatives and projects. Using its unrestricted and field of interest funds, the foundation can respond to proposals submitted by nonprofits and government entities. It also makes investments in long-term initiatives that improve the quality of life in the community and offer system change solutions to priority areas. A majority of the foundation's grants are determined by the charitable interests of it's donors.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 82% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 87% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 53
- Transparency & Controls: 73
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 90
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 35.6%; rating input score 36
- Program expense ratio: 78.4%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: $27.99 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: 92.5%; rating input score 92; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th 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: 73.8%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 23.99; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.8%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 35.6% of revenue deployed · 78.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $6.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $184K · 17 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 35 of 36 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 105 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 103 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.
- 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: Mission deployment rate scored 36/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 44/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.