Cedar River Haven

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
861915412
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Letts, IA, USA
Phone
3198500020
Rating
97
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$161,970
Expenses
$165,220
Assets
$294,864
Liabilities
$245,270

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • TRACEY LAMM (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • STEVE HAMMES (TREASURER)
  • TRACEY LAMM (PRESIDENT)
  • BRIAN SIMMONS (DIRECTOR)

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

Cedar river haven, a hand up, an open heart, and a haven of peace; helping women in crisis from substance use disorder to learn a new way of life and unleash their potential by offering safe shelter, employment opportunities, and life skills.

What it reported doing in 2025

Cedar river haven provides shelter, meals, employment, and resources to build a new way of life for women in crisis. The program serves women from all walks of life - those seeking temporary residence outside of their own community to help aid their recovery as well as women seeking reentry following incarceration. All women must be specifically seeking recovery services for alcohol and/or drug dependency. Women who enter the program may also be facing housing, mental health, and emotional crisis that they are seeking tools and resources to overcome. A sober living residence provides structured living quarters that promote overall well-being of the women being served, with a special focus on nutrition, mind/body connection, and mental health. Women attend regular recovery meetings and workshops, as well as receive financial coaching, job skills training and optional job placement services. Women are assessed to evaluate their needs in terms of their length of stay at the residence. Full length of stay is determined on an as-needed basis, taking into consideration each individual's accomplishments within the program and further needs. Cedar river haven seeks to aid women with local community connections through its partnerships with community organizations that also serve to aid women in recovery and/or reentry.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 73% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and liabilities are high compared with assets.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 42
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -2%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.78; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.83; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 23.6% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 13.7% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 41.5% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $165K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 5/100.