Reuse Centers
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 332982556
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Cincinnati, OH, USA
- Phone
- 5139210111
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Recycling Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $596,427
- Expenses
- $531,301
- Assets
- $208,585
- Liabilities
- $143,459
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Andrew Dawson (Executive Director)
- Jon Weaver (Board Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Andrew Dawson (Executive Director): $37,500 total reported compensation
- Chuck Payne (Board Treasurer): $6,370 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Taking unwanted building materials and providing them to those in need. The ReUse Centers have warehouses in Cincinnati, OH and Lexington, KY, where they make donated building materials available to those who might otherwise not be able to afford them, including homeowners, other non-profits and agencies. Training at-risk youth for future employment and life skills. The ReUse Centers have a program for at-risk youth to teach them basic life and employment skills, providing them with job training and skills to place them on a path for a successful life.
What it reported doing in 2025
Taking unwanted building materials and providing them to those in need. The ReUse Centers have warehouses in Cincinnati, OH and Lexington, KY, where they make donated building materials available to those who might otherwise not be able to afford them, including homeowners, other non-profits and agencies.
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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 72
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 65.4%; rating input score 65
- Program expense ratio: 73.4%; rating input score 73
- Fundraising efficiency: $0 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.9%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.39; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.69; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.3%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 65.4% of revenue deployed · 73.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 3 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $390K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $38K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 8/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 42/100.