Burt County Economic Development Corporation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 202742265
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Tekamah, NE, USA
- Phone
- 4023742953
- Rating
- 50
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $85,965
- Expenses
- $79,098
- Assets
- $214,674
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CYNTHIA CHATT (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- CHAD ZINK (PRESIDENT)
- DAVE CHASE (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- CYNTHIA CHATT (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- CHAD ZINK (PRESIDENT)
- DAVE CHASE (VICE 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
Promoting and supporting all economic development activities in burt county, Nebraska.
What it reported doing in 2025
Economic development advertising and promotion
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: 28
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 28.3%; rating input score 28
- Program expense ratio: 29.3%; rating input score 29
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.71; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 60.1%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -3% per year; rating input score 0; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.3% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 28.3% of revenue deployed · 29.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $23K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 28/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 29/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.