Next Chapter of La Crosse Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 834404743
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- La Crosse, WI, USA
- Phone
- 6085190919
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Racquet Sports
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $174,218
- Expenses
- $166,087
- Assets
- $55,835
- Liabilities
- $928
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Doug Schmidt (President)
People named in this filing
- Doug Schmidt (President)
- John Torrance (Treasurer)
- Tony Nerhing (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
Transitional Navigation and Housing for Former Inmates
What it reported doing in 2025
Our Discipleship Home provides the supportive environment to develop essential life skills for long-term successful reentry. This environment includes a structured program, support network and relationships, meaningful work, and financial stability. **STRUCTURED RESIDENTIAL PROGRAM Our Discipleship Home offers a six month structured, holistic Christian living program that provides day-to-day support for building life skills, habits, and routines necessary for self-sufficiency and community contribution. This provides a safe and stable environment to establish new lifestyle patterns. **SUPPORT NETWORK AND POSITIVE RELATIONSHIPS Our Discipleship Home fosters positive relationships within a healthy community setting through staff and volunteer-led resident groups, mentoring, house community building, participation in local churches, and community service opportunities. Participants find the necessary support and encouragement for a successful reentry process. **MEANINGFUL, INCOME-PRODUCING EMPLOYMENT Our program includes full-time employment requirements and monitoring of Department of Corrections compliance. By engaging in meaningful work within the program's framework, residents gain a sense of purpose and significance that helps build resilience in facing challenges during their reentry process. **FINANCIAL STABILITY AND INDEPENDENCE Upon successful completion of the residential program, participants are equipped with savings for initial apartment costs, gainful employment, and established connections within a church community. The program focuses on financial budgeting skills and disciplines to empower participants towards financial stability and independence. **LONG-TERM IMPACT Our Discipleship Home not only provides immediate support but also aims for long-term impact by preparing individuals to maintain gainful employment, pursue career development opportunities, and establish themselves as self-sufficient contributors to their communities. Clinets Impacted:
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% 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: 46
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 44.5%; rating input score 45
- Program expense ratio: 46.7%; rating input score 47
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: 4.7%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.34; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.4% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -13.7% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 44.5% of revenue deployed · 46.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $78K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 45/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 47/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 44/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.