City Impact
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 821355582
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2019
- Location
- Cedar Springs, MI, USA
- Phone
- 6168432438
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $466,438
- Assets
- $519,470
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JONATHAN BERGSMA (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DEB LARSEN (TREAS)
- JONATHAN BERGSMA (PRESIDENT)
- CHARLES J LINDHOLM (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
City impact exists in order to find and fill the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of our neighbors and people in our community. We desire to minister to the body, soul, and spirit of individuals and communities. We reach out to all spectrums of society; including but not limited to enitre cities and communities, individual people and family groups, and everyone in between.
What it reported doing in 2025
Engaging in events and services to the people of rural kent county, michign to provide mobile food pantry, household/hygiene items, clothing and basic necessities. We also offer meals, kids games and crafts, hair cuts, chiropractic care, and handyman teams to assist the community. In addition to those needs, we also bring in people from the community to teach life skills. We have also furthered our ministry by hosting birthday parties, medication pickup, meal making and food delivery for those that are sick and elderly, parenting skills assistance, rides to church, mentoring and many other relationship and fellowship building activities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 88
- Accountability: 63
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.11; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.2% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22.4% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 6 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $466K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 12 of 13 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D land buildings reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.