Huron Area Center for Independence
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 460326401
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Huron, SD, USA
- Phone
- 6053525698
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Vocational Rehabilitation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $19,482,769
- Expenses
- $16,758,940
- Assets
- $23,436,583
- Liabilities
- $2,289,975
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KRISTIN KLINE (CEO/SECRETAR)
- DREW WEINREIS (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- KRISTIN KLINE (CEO/SECRETAR): $173,984 total reported compensation
- GEORGIA LANGBEHN (CSO): $128,009 total reported compensation
- THEODORE HAUG (COO): $122,008 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Mission: supporting people to participate as essential members of their community.
What it reported doing in 2024
Huron area center for independence is dedicated to providing high-quality, outcome-based services to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Central to this philosophy is discovering each person's unique goals and delivering individualized services that support progress toward those goals. Each person is supported by a collaborative team that may include the person, their guardian or parents, a front line supervisor, and other agency staff. Together, the team is responsible for developing a comprehensive, personalized enhancement plan designed to support the person in reaching their personal goals. Emphasis is placed on promoting independence, encouraging informed decision-making, and fostering self- advocacy. Currently, 154 people receive services through the agency, including residential, day, vocational, employment, and medical supports. Individuals are encouraged to participate in community activities of their choice, with the necessary support services provided to make this participatiion possible.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 96% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 66
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 65
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.9%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 90.3%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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; 66th 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: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.4; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.4%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.9% of revenue deployed · 90.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $15.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $174K · 19 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.