The Kiwanis Club of Columbus Ohio

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
316037010
IRS 990 coverage
2013–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2012
Location
Columbus, OH, USA
Phone
6144425884
Rating
65
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Men's Service Clubs

Reported finances

Revenue
$51,819
Expenses
$44,736
Assets
$116,521
Liabilities
$21,595

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MERRI BAME (PRESIDENT)
  • CHAD GARDNER (PRESIDENT EL)

People named in this filing

  • MERRI BAME (PRESIDENT)
  • CHAD GARDNER (PRESIDENT EL)
  • CORIN FOGLE (VICE PRESIDE)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Serving the children of the world by working to improve the lives of children and families in central Ohio.

What it reported doing in 2024

The kiwanis club of columbus is a membership-based service organization dedicated to improving the columbus, Ohio community. Partnering with local nonprofit organizations and businesses, we use our club's resources to: 1) improve quality of life through hands-on service projects 2) make a broader impact on pressing community problems through philanthropic initiatives, and 3) stay informed about issues affecting our community through weekly forums with community leaders. As a part of the kiwanis international family, we join with thousands of clubs around the globe that are focused on serving the children of the world. The following are just a few of the many programs we sponsor and/or support through volunteer service projects with our fellow kiwanians: local food pantries and meal programs, furniture builds for the less fortunate, salvation army bell ringing, and local neighborhood clean-up efforts. Assisted the columbus kiwanis foundation with fundraising, which provided: over 100,000 of support to local charities, including 12,000 for the columbus metropolitan library summer reading program, continuing the club's longtime and substantial support of this successful community reading program; 10,000 in direct scholarship support to columbus high school students attending college. Awards were made to columbus city schools high school seniors, renewal awards to past recipients and "nontraditional" awards to students who were returning or new to college after time off from education; support for programs benefiting babies and children from birth to five years, including celebrate one, little bottoms free store, columbus children's choir and home for families; and support for programs and projects through furniture bank of central Ohio, famlies flourish, level the playing field and seeds of caring.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 80% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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

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 a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 46
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 82
  • Sustainability: 52
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 49.2%; rating input score 49
  • Program expense ratio: 57%; rating input score 57
  • 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • 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: 13.7%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.6; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.19; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -20.8% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -8.5% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 49.2% of revenue deployed · 57% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $26K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 16 of 16 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 49/100.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 57/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.