Troopers for a Safer Ohio
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 311455615
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Gahanna, OH, USA
- Phone
- 6147817686
- Rating
- 42
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Labor Unions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $13,207
- Expenses
- $45,687
- Assets
- $15,878
- Liabilities
- $53,690
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TRAVIS JONES (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DENNIS GORSKI (CHAIRMAN)
- TRAVIS JONES (PRESIDENT)
- JEREMY MENDENHALL (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Supporting & advocating -laws that make Ohio's highways safer for the driving public -legislation that improves the state's criminal justice system -public policy that enhances the law enforcement profession ________________________________________ working to improve & upgrade -the salaries, employment conditions and retirement benefits of Ohio state highway patrol personnel ________________________________________ promoting pride -and enhancing morale among Ohio state highway patrol personnel ________________________________________ educating ohioans -about how to prevent crime, and about the role of the Ohio state highway patrol in guarding the safety of the traveling public. This includes improving ohioans' understanding and recognition of troopers as dedicated highly-skilled law enforcement professionals
What it reported doing in 2025
Supporting & advocating -laws that make Ohio's highways safer for the driving public -legislation that improves the state's criminal justice system -public policy that enhances the law enforcement profession ________________________________________ working to improve & upgrade -the salaries, employment conditions and retirement benefits of Ohio state highway patrol personnel ________________________________________ promoting pride -and enhancing morale among Ohio state highway patrol personnel ________________________________________ educating ohioans -about how to prevent crime, and about the role of the Ohio state highway patrol in guarding the safety of the traveling public. This includes improving ohioans' understanding and recognition of troopers as dedicated highly-skilled law enforcement professionals.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Investment-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
MIXED - 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 16
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
- 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: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: -245.9%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.35; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 3.38; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -27.4% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -19% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -9.5% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 40 of 40 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 16 of 16 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.