Junior League of Cedar Rapids Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 426060212
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2013, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Cedar Rapids, IA, USA
- Phone
- 3193647892
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Women's Service Clubs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $156,639
- Expenses
- $120,417
- Assets
- $498,579
- Liabilities
- $16,187
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MANDY FERRANTE (PRESIDENT)
- JAIME MEAD (PRESIDENT EL)
People named in this filing
- MANDY FERRANTE (PRESIDENT)
- JAIME MEAD (PRESIDENT EL)
- LESLIE NEUGEBAUER (SECRETARY)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To promote community service and volunteer services as well as training opportunities to members.
What it reported doing in 2024
Bridging the g.a.p. Service project: guide - jlcr empowers foster youth through the development of life skills. These are mentorship and connection volunteer opportunities twice a month. Advocate - jlcr supports efforts to ensure that youth aging out of foster care have the opportunities and services essential to live independently. Jlcr participants in a day on the hill anually to advocate for policaies impacting youth in foster care and those who are aging out. Members also trained on how to write to legislators. Provide - jlcr contributes suitcases filled with many items needed to get settled in to their first apartment and necessity scholarships to foster youth alumni with items needed to live independently. Jlcr also manages a housing first profram which provides housing assistance and teaches essential budgeting skills to these young adults. Jlcr contributes backpacks to youth in foster care annually.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 72% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 71% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 54
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 75
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 51.3%; rating input score 51
- Program expense ratio: 58.4%; rating input score 58
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 23.1%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.14; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 51.3% of revenue deployed · 58.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $70K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 51/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 58/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.