Central Rivers Area Education Agency Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
263598915
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2019–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2016, Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Cedar Falls, IA, USA
Phone
3192738206
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution

Reported finances

Revenue
$154,960
Expenses
$54,077
Assets
$226,538
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • BALL ROD (PRESIDENT)
  • RICH DEB (VICE PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • BALL ROD (PRESIDENT)
  • RICH DEB (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • COOMBES JENNIFER (TREASURER)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Maintaining, developing, increasing, and extending the facilities and services of central rivers area education agency to provide broader educational and developmental service opportunities to its students, staff, and faculty, and the residents of the central rivers area education agency area.

What it reported doing in 2024

Provide supplies and equipment to and remodel the building for river hills school, a school for children with developmental disabilities.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 58
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 89
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 36%; rating input score 36
  • Program expense ratio: 96.4%; rating input score 96

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: 65.1%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.19; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 55.7% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -10.9% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 36% of revenue deployed · 96.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $52K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 36/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.