Kaleidoscope Community Services Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
463968670
IRS 990 coverage
2019–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2023
Location
South Cle Elum, WA, USA
Phone
2086993301
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$267,220
Expenses
$242,381
Assets
$85,309
Liabilities
$5,657

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • STEPHANI HAAG (Executive Dir.): $23,577 total reported compensation
  • VICKI MICKELSON (FINANCE DIRECTR): $13,300 total reported compensation
  • GARTH MICKELSON (Executive Dir.): $1,000 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The primary mission is to connect resources with needs in the local community. Kaleidoscope Community Services(KCS)is about people, community, and connections. KCS partners with agencies such as local school districts, adult probation programs, as well as other local social service oriented nonprofit programs to identify pressing community needs. Once those needs have been identified we then seek to build collaborations between faith based organizations, other community organizations and local businesses to effectively engage and complete those projects.

What it reported doing in 2024

Work services program (2024): our work services program had four paid employee program participants during 2024. These employees worked on a variety of projects throughout the year, both on customer paying projects and client pro bono services. Projects included work on home safety and mobility repairs, handicap ramps, roof repairs, landscaping, and residential home remodeling, employees also did vehicle repairs for persons in need. During 2024 program participants were helped through regular employment, flexible work scheduling, learning new job skills, mentoring, and a regular pay checks.clientele served by the work services program included seniors on limited incomes which were recipients of "pro bono" services provided by our program. These services included handyman work, yard work, fence building, deck maintenance, handicap ramp building, garbage hauling, snowplowing and safety and mobility evaluations. Other "for pay" services conducted through the work program included home improvement and landscaping, home organization and estate sales management, and snow plowing.in 2024 we also started a network of volunteers in upper kittitas county known as kaleidoscope volunteer network (kvn). We worked on matching the volunteers interests with specific needs in the community and had 84 volunteer applications and we were able to match 50 of the volunteers and use them for urgent needs in the community. Some of the needs met were one time and many are ongoing.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 67% 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

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: 82
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 58
  • Sustainability: 39
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 88.7%; rating input score 89
  • Program expense ratio: 97.8%; rating input score 98
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 0 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Limited
    • Other executive compensation review process: Limited
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 9.3%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.35; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 15.6%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 88.7% of revenue deployed · 97.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 0 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $237K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $24K · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2019 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 5 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.

  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.