Mercer County Better Together
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 822006671
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Aledo, IL, USA
- Phone
- 3095743123
- Rating
- 44
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Job Training
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $135,175
- Expenses
- $259,809
- Assets
- $130,246
- Liabilities
- $11,047
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KIRK DOONAN (PRESIDENT)
- MARK JOHNSON (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- KIRK DOONAN (PRESIDENT)
- MARK JOHNSON (VICE PRESIDENT)
- STEPHANIE RETHERFORD (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Align funding to gain strongerbusinesses
What it reported doing in 2025
Providing funding for various programs as a pass through fiscal agent.providing one time emergency housing funds for people in need.providing books to children in the community
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
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: -92.2%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.5; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 11.9% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.