Visit Shawnee Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 471195366
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2018
- Forms available
- Form 990 2018
- Location
- Shawnee, OK, USA
- Phone
- 4052759780
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $497,856
- Expenses
- $542,454
- Assets
- $661,968
- Liabilities
- $12,318
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KEN STAFFORD (President)
People named in this filing
- RANDY GILBERT (PAST CHAIR)
- ED BOLT (Secretary)
- MINDY PALMER (VICE CHAIR)
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 2018. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To encourage, promote, and foster visitor and tourism conventions, conferences, and tourism development in shawnee, Oklahoma
What it reported doing in 2018
Visit shawnee inc provides support to shawnee charitable entities in an effort to assist with the planning and execution of local events.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 91% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 67% for direct work, and 33% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.4%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 82%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 57.4%; rating input score 57; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.22; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 89.4% of revenue deployed · 82% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $445K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 25 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes grants
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 4 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 57/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 49/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.