Boys and Girls Clubs of Story County Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 420888428
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Ames, IA, USA
- Phone
- 5152331872
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,042,692
- Expenses
- $1,436,423
- Assets
- $8,697,169
- Liabilities
- $1,934,773
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RYAN SANTI (CEO)
- DOUG RAGALLER (Vice President)
- MICHELLE CASSABAUM (President)
- TYLER FARNER (PAST PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- RYAN SANTI (CEO): $121,361 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 inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
What it reported doing in 2024
For almost 60 years, boys & girls clubs of story county inc has worked with young people, ages 6-18, providing researched-based youth development programming to ensure they have the skills and resources needed to be great citizens and leaders of tomorrow. We provide a positive, safe environment with caring, trained adult staff, educational programs promoting academic success, encourage healthy lifestyles and good character. We served over 450 youth during this fiscal year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 62% 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - 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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 50
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 78
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 34.7%; rating input score 35
- Program expense ratio: 72.8%; rating input score 73
- Fundraising efficiency: $17.55 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 20th 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: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 52.8%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.05; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.22; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.4%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.3% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 19.5% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.6% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 34.7% of revenue deployed · 72.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $121K · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 31 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 35/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 56/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 35/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 41/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.