Iron Rams Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 471040215
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2017–2025
Forms available: Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2016
Location: Pleasant Hill, IA, USA
Phone: 5152073400
Rating: 89
Verdict: STRONG
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Single Organization Support

Reported finances

Revenue: $91,547
Expenses: $109,913
Assets: $72,455

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

BENJAMIN SMITH (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

BENJAMIN SMITH (PRESIDENT)
JESSMAN SMITH (VICE PRESIDE)
JACOB HELVEY (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Our mission is to support the tradition and success of southeast polk wrestling, focusing on four major activites: 1. Support summer wrestling activities 2. Building the red owens holiday tournament into a marquee event 3. Bringing the sep wrestling community closer together through regular communication and events. 4. Preserving the history and traditions of sep wrestling.

Operating model

Revenue model: Earned-program. 82% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 100
Transparency & Controls: 82
Sustainability: 28
Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

Operating margin: -20.1%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.66; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $110K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
Schedules: 2 filed schedules
Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 22/100.
Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.