The Ounce of Prevention Fund of Florida
Legal name: The Ounce of Prevention Fund of Florida Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 592908367
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Tallahassee, FL, USA
- Phone
- 8507824006
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $39,318,228
- Expenses
- $38,744,824
- Assets
- $14,086,390
- Liabilities
- $10,685,264
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- WINIFRED HEGGINS (VICE PRESIDENT/DIR OF OPF)
- JENNIFER OHLSEN (PRESIDENT/CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- JENNIFER OHLSEN (PRESIDENT/CEO): $216,699 total reported compensation
- WINIFRED HEGGINS (VICE PRESIDENT/DIR OF OPF): $148,027 total reported compensation
- SHARON CLARK (CFO): $137,008 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Shaping prevention policy and investing in innovative prevention programs that provide measurable benefits to Florida's children, families and communities.
What it reported doing in 2024
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Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 95% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 85% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 72
- Accountability: 96
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.7%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 97.1%; rating input score 97
- Fundraising efficiency: $286.14 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 96.4%; rating input score 96; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 25th 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: 1.5%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.36; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.76; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.8%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 30th 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: 95.7% of revenue deployed · 97.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 14 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $37.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $217K · 18 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 36 of 37 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 51 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 46 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.