Access for Special Kids Resource Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 421489784
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2009
- Location
- Johnston, IA, USA
- Phone
- 5152431713
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Disabled Persons' Rights
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,298,434
- Expenses
- $1,274,072
- Assets
- $545,986
- Liabilities
- $103,943
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MELANIE GAGE (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- KAREN THOMPSON (EXECUTIVE DI): $128,428 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of access for special kids resource center, inc. Is to provide innovative and collaborative information, training, resources and support to individuals with disabilities, their family members and the people who serve them.
What it reported doing in 2024
Access for special kids resource center, inc., ask resource center, exists to provide innovative and collaborative information, education, professional advocacy and research based family to family mentoring support to people with disabilities, their family members and the professionals who support them. Through various, core products and services, ask resource center helps to ensure the civil rights of people with disabilities and their families by offering assistance in navigating the complex education, community living and healthcare systems that become a part of life when life is touched by disability. Ask resource center serves the entire state of Iowa utilizing a board of directors, a corporate advisory board, staff and a volunteer network -- almost of whom are people with lived experience in disability issues, civil rights and disability advocacy.in fiscal year 2024-2025, ask resource center provided over 52,000 instances of training and individualized assistance, offered more than 700,000 instances of information dissemination and referrals, trained 11 new volunteer mentors across Iowa, facilitated 31 matches for trained mentors to families in need of assistance, and facilitated 16 matches of trained family leaders to leadership opportunities at the local, state and national levels.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 96% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.2%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 97%; rating input score 97
- Fundraising efficiency: $85.89 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 1.9%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.43; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.19; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.1%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.2% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 95.2% of revenue deployed · 97% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $128K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 37/100.