Oklahoma School for the Deaf Foundation
Legal name: The Oklahoma Foundation for the Education of Deaf Children and Youth Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 731339954
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Sulphur, OK, US
- Phone
- 5806224890
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Specialized Education Institutions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $37,112
- Expenses
- $172,882
- Assets
- $200,142
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Bill Wright (President)
- Seandra Ramer (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Bill Wright (President)
- Seandra Ramer (Vice President)
- Craig Abla (Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To help maximize the quality of education for children and youth of Oklahoma who are Deaf or hard of hearing. In order to fulfill its mission, the Foundation will solicit and receive both endowment and current program funds and formulate and administer programs in cooperation with the Oklahoma School for the Deaf.
What it reported doing in 2024
Student Enhancement Program - Many of the deaf students attending the Oklahoma School for the Deaf live on campus. Therefore, each school year, the Oklahoma Foundation for the Education of Deaf Children and Youth Inc looks for opportunites to assist the Oklahoma School for the Deaf administration in making the students feel they are a part of a 'deaf school family'. To accomplish this goal, the Foundation funds various activities that help the students build strong relationships with their peers and teachers. Additionally, through the Student Enhancement Program, the Foundation provides leadership awards to student leaders as well as scholarships to graduates who meet certain qualifications. Overall, approximatley 100 students are affected by the Student Enhancement Program.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 23.2%; rating input score 23
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -365.8%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.16; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -141.1% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -50.7% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 23.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $40K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 23/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.