Tohono O'odham Community College

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
860931108
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Official website data refreshed
Aug 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Sells, AZ, US
Phone
520-479-2300
Rating
73
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Community or Junior Colleges

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$31,854,005
Expenses
$20,706,000
Assets
$47,192,546
Liabilities
$12,791,262

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • OFELIA ZEPEDA (BOARD PRESIDENT)
  • JONAS R ROBLES (VICE-PRESIDENT)
  • STEPHEN SCHOONMAKER (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • STEPHEN SCHOONMAKER (PRESIDENT): $198,222 total reported compensation
  • RONDAL GERONIMO (CO-DIRECTOR OF T.O. LANGUAGE): $119,065 total reported compensation
  • JONAS R ROBLES (VICE-PRESIDENT): $5,650 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Tohono O'odham Community College provides quality higher education and workforce development opportunities that address academic, life, and developmental skills for the Tohono O'odham Nation.

What it reported doing in 2024

Sponsored projects: grants in sponsored projects support a range of initiatives that support the mission and vision of the tohono o'odham community college. 1) a multi-year national science foundation (nsf) grant - "tribal enterprise advancement center", supports the effort to revitalize the o'odham language. 2) another nsf grant supports tocc's stem curriculum in the fields of math, chemistry, and biology. As a result, we now have a cadre of students who are pursuing education in stem fields and who can transfer to university upon graduation. 3) a grant from the state of Arizona in collaboration with the tohono o' odham nation and the college funds major construction and renovation of college infrastructure. Those funds helped our apprenticeship program rehabilitate a space that serves our carpentry, electrical and plumbing students in their quest to be journey persons in the field and to have gainful employment in construction industries. The funds derive from transaction privilege taxes and the college realizes ca. $40k/month from those revenues. 4) the facilities improvement and repair grant from the bureau of education was used for removal of small structures that had fallen into disrepair and that were hazardous as well as taking up needed space on our small campus west of sells, Arizona. 5) the title iii program from the department of education includes funds that can be used for construction and those funds were used to support the construction of a 6,500 square foot o'odham language center on the main campus. That center will provide office spaces, meeting spaces, and a curation room as well as a recording studio. 6) the title iii funds are also used to support tutors in a range of subject areas, a support that helps our students pass difficult subject areas. 7) a bia grant in occupational training helps support our apprenticeship program and from the american indian college fund help support the college's ced (general education diploma) program that is building its clientele and assisting folks who want to earn their high school equivalency and, in many cases, to go on for college degrees.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 99% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 72% for direct work, and 28% for 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 58
  • Transparency & Controls: 72
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 77
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 54.3%; rating input score 54
  • Program expense ratio: 83.3%; rating input score 83
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 10th 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: Pass
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 97.6%; rating input score 98; 28th 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: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 35%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.28; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.27; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 1.6%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 11.1% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 10.2% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 54.3% of revenue deployed · 83.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $17.3M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $198K · 6 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $10.1M reported
  • Consistency: 34 of 35 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 2 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 54/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 50/100.