James House

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
010827142
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2011–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2017, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Willmar, MN, USA
Phone
3207370142
Rating
88
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Prison Alternatives
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$169,613
Expenses
$166,878
Assets
$55,750
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

14 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Duane Bonnema (Board President)

People named in this filing

  • Nikki Towery (Director)
  • Amy Huisman (Program Mentor)
  • Lindsay Jacobson (Program Mentor)

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

To provide Christian structured, sober living environment for recovering chemically dependent women who have been discharged from a chemical dependency treatment program.

What it reported doing in 2025

Providing a Christian structured, sober living environment for recovering chemically dependent women who have been discharged from a chemical dependency treatment program. The number of women benefitted is 40.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 67% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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: 99
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 35
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 98.4%; rating input score 98
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 1.6%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.33; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 37.6%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 12.7% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -4.6% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 98.4% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $167K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2011 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.