Adventures in Social Development Asd

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
262846686
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Johnston, IA, USA
Rating
52
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$88,342
Expenses
$87,652
Assets
$42,356

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Annie Mielke (Executive director)
  • Jessica Vaught (President)
  • Ryan Stellner (Vice-president)

People named in this filing

  • Annie Mielke (Executive director)
  • Joseph Parrish (Lead facilitator)
  • Jessica Vaught (President)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Cultivate relationship development through performance-based activities and music-making initiatives that showcase an individuals wants needs talents and abilities within a public forum. Curriculum addresses and resolves complex social issues in a safe nurturing creative and nonviolent area to enhance the development of sharing listening problem-solving team building and receiving diversity to support emotional and social competencies for all.

What it reported doing in 2025

Drama classes: Participants exercise various techniques of acting and improvisation; establishing healthy relationships through peer-led dramatic play; utilize role-play of a scene to resolve social issues. Number of participants benefited: 600

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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.

The verdict

MIXED - 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: 20
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 32
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 20.5%; rating input score 20
  • Program expense ratio: 20.7%; rating input score 21

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 0.8%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.48; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 14.6%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -56.2% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -18.8% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 35th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 20.5% of revenue deployed · 20.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $18K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 20/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 21/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.