Circle of Freedom
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 850700473
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Seymour, IA, US
- Phone
- (641) 414-2999
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Rehabilitation Services for Offenders
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $360,135
- Expenses
- $271,394
- Assets
- $1,091,190
- Liabilities
- $22,989
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KIMBERLY CRAWFORD (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- KIMBERLY CRAWFORD (PRESIDENT)
- KATHY HENELY (TREASURER)
- CINDY THIEL (SECRETARY)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Leading women struggling with addiction and other life-controlling problems to freedom in Jesus and helping them reestablish their lives.
What it reported doing in 2024
Jail ministry, mentoring & biblical counseling sessions we did 16 visits/phone calls/emails/letters with incarcerated women. During these contacts we do a bible study with the women, listen to them, pray with them, help them redirect their thoughts & emotions in way that will help them submit to appropriate help in overcoming life controling issues. We had aprrox 110 mentoring sesssions of communiation through personal visits/phone calls/text & messaging. Some were follow-up with women released from incarcertion and others were with women contacting us outside the jail system. We provided 68 biblical counseling sessions using the new hope biblical counseling curriculum.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 62% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 72
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.1%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 94.3%; rating input score 94
- Fundraising efficiency: $79.35 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 24.6%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.02; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 52.1% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -18.7% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.9% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 4 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 71.1% of revenue deployed · 94.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $256K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 26 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 40/100.