Mountains to Molehills

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
881773219
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Wood River, IL, USA
Phone
3143123513
Rating
68
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Community, Neighborhood Development

Reported finances

Revenue
$102,732
Expenses
$74,255
Assets
$29,011
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JARED BRYNILDSEN (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • MICHAEL BABCOCK (FOUNDING BOARD MEMBER)
  • DAVID NEWTON (OPERATIONS DIRECTOR)
  • JARED BRYNILDSEN (PRESIDENT)

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

Mountains to molehills provides monetary relief for the purpose of improving the lives of the impoverished through appliance repair and replacements, home repairs, auto repairs, or other activities that might provide relief and service to poor or needy individuals. The specific objectives and purpose of this organization is to: a) identify and screen individuals with need requests to ensure validity of requests, whether directly or through partner organizations, b) organize individual contractors, at subsidized or full cost, to complete repairs as required, c) provide oversight and quality control of processes and repair activities to ensure effectiveness of the organization, d) distribute excess funds to non-profit organizations with similar purposes to mountains to molehills in order to maximize efficiency in fund collection and distribution.

What it reported doing in 2025

Program expenses related to donated items: other expenses directly related to the organization's primary exempt purpose as described on schedule o

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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 - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending 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: 41
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 57
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 35.5%; rating input score 36
  • Program expense ratio: 49.2%; rating input score 49

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: 27.7%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.39; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 40.4%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 26.6% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 26.7% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 125.2% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 35.5% of revenue deployed · 49.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $37K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 36/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 49/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.