Torchbearers Akron
Legal name: Torchbearers
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 201869314
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2011
- Location
- Akron, OH, United States
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Community Service Clubs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $91,877
- Expenses
- $86,512
- Assets
- $303,473
- Liabilities
- $4,289
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Zinga Hart (President)
- Sierra Oden (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Zinga Hart (President)
- Sierra Oden (Vice President)
- Heather Morrow (Secretary)
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
OUR MISSION, VISION, & VALUES MISSION: _To enhance Greater Akron by investing in the development, connection and engagement of our membership, comprised of evolving leaders with a passion to impact our community._. _We envision a culture of empowered and diverse leadership in which our members are making meaningful contributions to the Greater Akron community._ CORE VALUES: _We value**Connection** , **Growth** , and **Service**. We strive to connect our members to the community and to each other. We enable our members to grow personally and professionally and to facilitate growth in our community. We provide meaningful service to the Greater Akron area._.
What it reported doing in 2024
Contributions to Middlebury Neighborhood as a part of Capstone Program
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 62% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 49
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 48.4%; rating input score 48
- Program expense ratio: 51.4%; rating input score 51
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.8%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.51; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4.4% per year; rating input score 0; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 48.4% of revenue deployed · 51.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $44K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 48/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 51/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.