The Fraternal Order of Eagles Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 202479590
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2013
- Location
- Grove City, OH, USA
- Phone
- 6148832194
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,161,252
- Expenses
- $3,406,319
- Assets
- $18,133,551
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PETER ACKERS (PRESIDENT)
- MARY GUTTIEREZ (VICE-PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- LARRY RUSH (CFO): $288,489 total reported compensation
- PETER ACKERS (PRESIDENT): $184,000 total reported compensation
- CHUCK WEBER (DIRECTOR): $98,943 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The fraternal order of eagle foundation's mission is to pursue, promote, and assist in the study, cure, care, and prevention of diabetes, cancer, kidney, heart, circulatory, and related diseases, children's diseases and disabilities, spinal cord injuries, alzheimer's and other diseases in all their phases; to engage, in research, publicity and other forms of educational work to control such diseases, and in the pursuance of other such projects pertaining to, related to, or conducive to these objectives and purposes and to aid and assist hospitals and other institutions for mentally challenged, disabled, and otherwise disadvantaged children.
What it reported doing in 2024
Provide grants to assist in the education and research of children's diseases and programs to prevent child abuse, as well as programs involving the improvement of lives of children with disabilities and disadvantages.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 94% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 66
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 85
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74.7%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 98.7%; rating input score 99
- Fundraising efficiency: $420.06 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 87%; rating input score 87; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 63.6%; rating input score 64; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- 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: 34%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.32; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.3%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.4% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 74.7% of revenue deployed · 98.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 11 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $3.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $288K · 15 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 15 of 16 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 94 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 97 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Whistleblower policy not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.