Community Development Resource Group

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
823862903
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Terry, MS, USA
Phone
6019068559
Rating
41
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
International Development

Reported finances

Revenue
$134,625
Expenses
$173,204
Assets
$6,183
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Jeff Purvis (Chairman)
  • Tim Rowan (Vice Chairman)
  • James Sanders (Treasurer)

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

Community Development Resource Group (CDRG) exists exclusively for humanitarian aid, disaster relief, and community Development in Central Asia. CDRG seeks to provide project support in poverty areas to enhance quality of life such as, clean water projects, medical clinics, agricultural projects and animal health services, disaster relief, and community development/education.

What it reported doing in 2025

Tajikistan Project development and execution - these funds are used to work with in-country registered NGO's to define and locate need (water, nutrition, health-care related, education, etc). Needs are then developed into project proposals for funding. All projects are managed by in-country registered NGO. Some projects are managed AND executed by the NGO. Other projects involve a combination of material funding through the NGO and "sweat equity" from the beneficiaries. 2025 projects included: (1) Engaging/assisting weekly ~30-50 Afghan refugee students separated from family due to fallout from August 2021 events in Afghanistan, as well as other students and young adults from various areas of Tajikistan, (2) A climbing wall as part of a training program for locals to guide outdoor adventures, (3) Provided food staples and materials for earthquake/landslide relief in remote area, (4) Funding for equipment, materials, and expertise for drilling a new drinking water well for each of 2 remote villages. Total benefitting from these projects estimate: 2500 persons

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 20
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

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: -28.7%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.04; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -44% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -24.3% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.