Avalon Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 820561153
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Charles City, IA, USA
- Phone
- 6414220070
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Centers to Support the Independence of Specific Populations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $432,720
- Expenses
- $397,256
- Assets
- $190,654
- Liabilities
- $103,265
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TANYA DADISMAN (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- LEAH WEBER (EXECUTIVE DI): $101,148 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide professional care and intervention to clients who find themselves at a crossroad in life; to assist them in conducting an honest assessment of their current circumstances, exploring options for change, and choosing a direction that provides for personal development and growth.
What it reported doing in 2024
Avalon center provides no cost counseling by licensed social workers, birthparent selection of adoptive families, support services and referrals for all clients, special needs/older children adoptions, interim foster care, assistance with meeting medical and legal needs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 90% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.6%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 79.1%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.2%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.48; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.54; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 25.5%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.1% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72.6% of revenue deployed · 79.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $314K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $101K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.