Corda Credit Union
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 420173285
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Cedar Rapids, IA, USA
- Phone
- 3193780101
- Rating
- 44
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $47,701,316
- Expenses
- $48,189,704
- Assets
- $726,146,859
- Liabilities
- $655,384,370
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PAULA O'ROURKE (PRESIDENT/CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- PAULA O'ROURKE (PRESIDENT/CEO): $708,806 total reported compensation
- JEREMY RIYNOLDS (CFO): $323,652 total reported compensation
- DANIEL LIMBERT (CHIEF RISK OFFICER): $299,569 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
State chartered credit union
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 95% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 and most voting board members are independent. 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: 66
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 15.07; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.9; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.4%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: Filed program service accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $709K · 19 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 13 of 14 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 16 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 55/100.