Swerve Outreach

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
473075976
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2017–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2016
Location
Altoona, IA, USA
Phone
5159911463
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Food Programs

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$143,321
Expenses
$132,366
Assets
$49,390
Liabilities
$655

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Kerrin Martinson (Vice President)
  • Maggie Crabb (President)

People named in this filing

  • Michael Norris (Director)
  • Nichole Hansen (Director)
  • Kerrin Martinson (Vice 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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The mission of Swerve Outreach is to disrupt the effects of cyclical poverty on the youth in Eastern Polk County. By offering access to healthy meals, educational programming, positive role models, and basic life necessities we are providing opportunities and empowering children, youth, and their families to work around the barriers of poverty so that they can be healthy, successful members of our community.

What it reported doing in 2024

Kids Cafe serves At-Risk and Underserved Youth Ages 18 and Under in Eastern Polk County by providing meals and learning opportunities during the summer. Of the 132 students registered for summer 2024, 88% participate in Free or Reduced Meals during the school year. We served 4,437 well-balanced meals to our students during the Summer 2024 program. To run the program, we had 150 volunteers representing 3,236 hours of service.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 39
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

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: 7.6%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.37; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 45.3%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 0.6% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 10.6% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 12.1% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 40/100.