Mediation Services of Eastern Iowa
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 010701687
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Iowa City, IA, USA
- Phone
- 3192481940
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Personal Social Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $48,647
- Expenses
- $40,230
- Assets
- $29,567
- Liabilities
- $5,594
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JERRY PARTRIDGE (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JERRY PARTRIDGE (PRESIDENT)
- THOMAS MAXWELL (VICE PRESIDE)
- NICK HERBOLD (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
The organization oversees two court-connected mediation programs: the sixth judicial district family medication program and the johnson county small claims mediation program. It provides continuing education to current mediators and attorneys; trains and mentors new volunteer mediators for small claims cases in johnson, linn and Iowa counties. It also educates citizens about mediation through its website, through correpondence and telephone calls and through court-ordered mediation education classes.
What it reported doing in 2024
Orientation bt zoom was provided for two new family mediators in the judicial district. Information included required forms, kinds of cases assigned, screening for domestic violence and how to request a waiver of mediation. 52 people attended a six-hour educational program presented on zoom in october. Topics included impacts of domestic abuse on families after separation, parenting coordination, screening and awareness of tactics for domestic abuse, and the current status of legal custody issues. The board president presented a three-hour zoom course on the use of restorative justice in a variety of cases. He offered the program 15 times and had more than 200 participants from around the country. Msei produced a 30-minute video for people going through divorce of separation and were ordered to mediation. All parties in divorce or custody cases are ordered to take the course, which is offered online.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% 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. Assets have declined or grown slowly and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.6%; rating input score 83
- 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: 17.3%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.73; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.19; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 82.6% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $40K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- 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: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.