Main Street Guthrie Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 464860272
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Guthrie Center, IA, USA
- Phone
- 6413322674
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Improvement, Capacity Building N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $69,898
- Expenses
- $61,898
- Assets
- $323,918
- Liabilities
- $110,899
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- STEVE SMITH (President)
- ROBERTA GILSON (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- STEVE SMITH (President)
- LINDSAY GILLAND (Director)
- DEVAN SEECK (Director)
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
The mission of Main Street Guthrie Center is to be a catalyst for economic vitality, to promote historic preservation and to champion community partnerships in our downtown.
What it reported doing in 2025
Promote shopping downtownHistoric researchCoordinated downtown cleanup day Participate in Faade Grant ProgramCo-host Reindeer ExpressHold Shop Small Saturday promotionMaintain downtown plantersBe a resource for local businessesHold retail eventsHosted a Christmas event with Guthrie Center Chamber of Commerce Continued work on the rehabilitation of The Williams Building
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.1%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 98.3%; rating input score 98
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.4%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.23; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.34; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.2% per year; rating input score 0; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.8% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.1% of revenue deployed · 98.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $61K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.