Tallgrass Recovery & Sober Living Homes
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 200293050
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Sioux Falls, SD, USA
- Phone
- 6053685559
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Residential Care & Adult Day Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,098,611
- Expenses
- $1,218,416
- Assets
- $906,192
- Liabilities
- $99,373
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jon Sommervold (Executive Director)
- Jennifer Larsen (President)
- William Baker (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Jon Sommervold (Executive Director): $124,231 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to provide the greatest opportunity for individuals and families suffering from alcohol & drug addiction to discover a new way of life by embracing a 12-step, spiritually-based solution.
What it reported doing in 2024
30-day Program -- Tallgrass programs have assisted thousands of people and their families. Guests are immersed in a community-based 12-step spiritual program & ground-breaking mentoring by a peer volunteer to learn the program which can be used to maintain sobriety and live a life of recovery from the chronic disease of addiction. The grants reported are scholarships awarded to individuals as a reduction of their stay fee. A discounted fee is then charged to the individuals if they do not have the financial means to cover the full cost of their 30-day stay.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 83% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 90% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 61
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.3%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 76.7%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: $0.69 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.2%; rating input score 88; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 0%; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.74; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.2%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -8.2% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85.3% of revenue deployed · 76.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $935K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $124K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 32 of 34 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 41/100.