Community Action Region Vi
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 450333497
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Jamestown, ND, USA
- Phone
- 7012521821
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Low-Income & Subsidized Rental Housing
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,943,723
- Expenses
- $4,859,153
- Assets
- $1,934,613
- Liabilities
- $648,574
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KRISTINA BROWNELL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- KRISTINA BROWNELL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $149,052 total reported compensation
- TAMMY HOGGARTH (HEAD START PROGRAM DIRECTO): $123,697 total reported compensation
- RAQUEL HEINLE (FINANCE DIRECTOR): $87,938 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Community action region vi's mission is to improve the quality of life for low income, elderly, & disabled people in a nine county area, to promote public awareness of the needs and problems faced by these individuals, and to work towards finding solutions to eliminate the social inequities and problems faced by them. Areas of service or program operation include, but not limited to, food, clothing, shelter, housing, 0-5 head start child education, energy conservation and individualized support services.
What it reported doing in 2025
Weatherization and housingdoe & liheap - help income eligible individuals make their mobile homes, apartments, and houses energy efficient.home & helping hands - housing assistance (rehabilition, low-income home construction) to improve the quality and extend the life of homes in the nine county service area based on eligibility requirements.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 90% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 84% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.5%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 85.8%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: $262.99 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.7%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.4; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.34; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.5%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 84.5% of revenue deployed · 85.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $4.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $149K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 11 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 43/100.