Homes of Oakridge Human Services
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 421311721
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Des Moines, IA, USA
- Phone
- 5152447702
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,801,155
- Expenses
- $4,013,459
- Assets
- $7,128,970
- Liabilities
- $720,658
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
25 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANDREA MCGUIRE (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)
- EMILY LEMAY (VICE PRESIDENT)
- SKYLAR MAYBERRY-MAYES (PRESIDENT)
- DEIDRE DEJEAR (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- DEIDRE DEJEAR (PRESIDENT & CEO): $179,571 total reported compensation
- KRISTIN CLAYTON (VP OF FINANCE): $154,884 total reported compensation
- PATRICIA PALMER (VP OF HOUSING): $124,998 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We enrich diverse communities through exceptional housing and inclusive support services for adults, children, and families, providing pathways to prosperity.
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization provides 339 units of housing for the residents and families of the oakridge neighborhood with a variety of traditional and non-traditional human service programs designed to break the cycle of poverty by addressing the issues that keep the working poor from getting ahead, including but not limited to affordable housing, affordable child care, transportation, employment opportunities and training, education, and case management.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 85
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.6%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 73.4%; rating input score 73
- Fundraising efficiency: $11.91 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5.6%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.78; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.4%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 79.6% of revenue deployed · 73.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 22 of 22 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $180K · 25 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $137K reported
- Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 5 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.
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 14/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 30/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.