Brain Injury Association of Iowa
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 421182407
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Iowa City, IA, USA
- Phone
- 3194667455
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Brain Disorders
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,097,586
- Expenses
- $951,127
- Assets
- $929,751
- Liabilities
- $176,797
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- June Klein-Bacon (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- June Klein-Bacon (Executive Director): $89,622 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 Brain Injury Association of Iowa is to create a better future through brain injury prevention, advocacy, education, research, and support. Starting as a volunteer organization in 1980, BIAIA has worked as an advocacy hub for statewide legislative, policy and systems change. Staffed by professional staff, BIAIA develops, deploys and evaluates an array of services designed to support Iowans with brain injury. BIAIA is active in influencing policy that impacts not only Iowans with brain injury but also other Iowans with disabilities. We provide training and education, to help raise awareness about brain injuries and help prevent them. We are here to serve the estimated 600,000 Iowa adults that report a lifetime history of brain injury. BIAIA has rejoined the Brain Injury Association of America to unite with other states under one umbrella to increase advocacy efforts and to unify the voices of people with lived experience, their families and the professionals serving them.
What it reported doing in 2024
The Brain Injury Association of Iowa (BIAIA) works to increase availability and accessibility of services and supports for people with brain injury, their family member and professionals engaging with them. The organization has maintained a statewide program of advocacy, education and prevention. BIAIA has had more than 15,276 contacts with Iowans affected by brain injury as well as professionals requesting information and providing resources and supports. Staff within the Brain Injury Resource Facilitation program supported 317 new case opened in 2025. The organization distributed monthly newsletters via email, distributed weekly event emails that included webinars, support group information, workshops and other engagement opportunities. BIAIA increased our social media presence, delivered 749 resources statewide by mail to brain injury survivors, families, caregivers and professionals. A professional network of providers and organizations to receive information for Iowans. Network providers had access to engagement meetings, in-services, case consultations and technical assistance.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 85% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. 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: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.2%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 97.2%; rating input score 97
- Fundraising efficiency: $856.26 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 97; 97th 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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13.3%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.98; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.19; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.4%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 84.2% of revenue deployed · 97.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $924K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $90K · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 39/100.