Columbus Discoveries Thrift Store
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 922673604
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Columbus Junction, IA, USA
- Phone
- 3194717277
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Thrift Shops
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $59,262
- Expenses
- $42,967
- Assets
- $59,722
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Angela Manes (President)
- Laura Cox (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Angela Manes (President)
- Laura Cox (Vice President)
- Sandra Martin (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Columbus Discoveries Thrift Store's mission is to turn donations into funds for community projects and enrichment.
What it reported doing in 2025
Collection of goods and merchandise. We solicit and accept donations of used clothing, household goods, furniture, and other items from the public. These donations are then sorted, cleaned, and prepared for resale. In 2025 we had 11 volunteers who donated a combined total of approximately 3,120 hours of personal time to the store.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 99% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 78% for direct work, and 22% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.5%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 27.5%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.39; rating input score 56; 56th 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 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.6% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 32% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72.5% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $43K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.