Greater Cedar Rapids Housing & Building Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 421016172
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Hiawatha, IA, USA
- Phone
- 3193950778
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $430,503
- Expenses
- $410,708
- Assets
- $652,563
- Liabilities
- $96,655
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
25 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- HOTH JAMIE (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)
- SKOGMAN JENNIFER (PRESIDENT)
- OLSON MELISSA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- OLSON MELISSA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $99,056 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Through advocacy and education, the association, unites and enhances area home builders, remodelers, associates, and their affiliates so that they may thrive while providing the public with safe, affordable homes and resilient communities.
What it reported doing in 2025
All activities are designed to promote public awareness of the home building industry as well as promote professional camaraderie among home builders and related industries in cedar rapids/marion and surrounding communities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- 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: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.6%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.59; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 24.1%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 24 of 24 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $99K · 25 people listed
- Consistency: 11 of 11 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.