Chippewa Falls Main Street Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 391647205
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Chippewa Falls, WI, USA
- Phone
- 7157236661
- Rating
- 52
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community, Neighborhood Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $162,166
- Expenses
- $164,499
- Assets
- $45,671
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ROB KIEFER (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MICHELE VINCENT (TREASURER)
- SUE RADA (SECRETARY)
- ROB KIEFER (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
See schedule o
What it reported doing in 2025
Promotion, design, and organization- creates excitement downtown, enhances the attractiveness of the business district, and involves building a mainstreet framework.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 87% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 93% 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 and program spending has grown recently. 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: 10
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 10.4%; rating input score 10
- Program expense ratio: 10.2%; rating input score 10
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: -1.4%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.28; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 10.4% of revenue deployed · 10.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $17K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 10/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.