Harbor Country Mission
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 464817933
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Sawyer, MI, USA
- Phone
- 2693139541
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $459,418
- Expenses
- $389,476
- Assets
- $277,300
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jason Ehlert (President)
People named in this filing
- Jason Ehlert (President)
- Jordan Klint (Secretary)
- Hanna Heyn (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Over 59,000 pieces of free clothing and household items were placed directly into the hands of the neighbors who needed them most. More than 1,000 furniture items were given to families transitioning into safe stable housing--kitchen tables sofas beds and dressers. Over 1,000 households were supported through our food pantry and emergency food programs. Crisis care referrals and essential items were given to neighbors facing homelessness unemployment and unexpected health conditions.
What it reported doing in 2025
The resource center is available to our clients daily 11-5 365 days a year. Each client can get unlimited free clothing shoes utensils appliances home decor and furniture. They can come get this weekly until they are no longer in need. In 2025 we assisted over 1,000 households through our food pantry. We assisted 20 households we consider transitional--coming from homelessness to new housing escaping domestic violence situations into a safe housing or recovering from a fire or flood home disaster.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 93% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 59
- Accountability: 18
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.8%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 81.8%; rating input score 82; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 0%; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15.2%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.71; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.2% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 84.8% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 6 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $389K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 39 of 41 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.