Cottonwood Trail Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 480979842
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-T 2025
- Location
- Lawrence, KS, USA
- Phone
- 7858420550
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Group Homes
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $131,117
- Expenses
- $57,594
- Assets
- $230,268
- Liabilities
- $46,695
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- COLLEEN HIMMELBERG (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- PAUL WERNER (VICE PRESIDENT)
- SHIRLEY MARTIN-SMITH (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ZAK BOLICK (EXECUTIVE/FINANCE COMMITTE)
- DANA BAKER (EXECUTIVE/FINANCE COMMITTE)
- MARILYN HECK (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
Providing housing for disabled.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provide low-cost housing for individuals with development disabilities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 81
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 42.6%; rating input score 43
- Program expense ratio: 97%; rating input score 97
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 56.1%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.2; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.4% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 42.6% of revenue deployed · 97% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $56K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 43/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.