Community Academy
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 824515257
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Ames, IA, USA
- Phone
- 5154420955
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Charter Schools
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $159,249
- Expenses
- $137,126
- Assets
- $43,604
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Michael Todd (Executive Director and Board of Directors Member)
- Lisa Harmison (Board of Directors President, Treasurer, and Member)
People named in this filing
- Michael Todd (Executive Director and Board of Directors Member)
- Lisa Harmison (Board of Directors President, Treasurer, and Member)
- Collin Reichert (Board of Directors Member)
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
Developing and implementing innovative educational programs that meet the needs of all students in our community. A major focus is getting all kids, including those that are from families with low resources, access to nature programming, high quality mentors, and connecting them to our community through long-term community projects.
What it reported doing in 2024
Summer Experience 2024 for June only. The Summer Experience 2025 hosted a 2-week, all-weekday session during June. Programming focussed on long-term community projects. Youth planted 1000's of native plants on public land in a collaboration with The City of Ames, learned about the history of Ames, and worked to build long-term relationships.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 67% 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.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.4%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 89.9%; rating input score 90
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: 13.9%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.32; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 28.6%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -13.3% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 19.4% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 24.7% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 77.4% of revenue deployed · 89.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $123K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.