The Arc of Lincoln
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 470498629
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Lincoln, NE, USA
- Phone
- 4024218866
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $408,346
- Expenses
- $360,527
- Assets
- $683,294
- Liabilities
- $134,799
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JENNIFER MEINTS (PRESIDENT)
- ALAN CARLSON (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JENNIFER MEINTS (PRESIDENT)
- MARY PHILLIPS (SECRETARY)
- MARY ELLS (TREASURER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Advocacy, education and recreation for individuals with intellectual and developmental disablities.
What it reported doing in 2025
The individual and family support services (ifss) program provides individual support, assistance and advocacy to people with developmental disabilites and their families. The ifss program offers many opportunites for people who share a common relationship, experience or concern to come together to explore issues, share ideas and support one another. The ifss program includes the services listed as follows: individual advocacy services, navigating through daily personal challenges. The educational system and the developmental disabilities system can be extremely difficult for individuals of all ages with developmental disabilites (dd) and for their families. The ifss program provides individualized advocacy services to help families.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 65% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.4%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 87.9%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $16.22 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.7%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.9; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.2; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.1% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.4% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.4% of revenue deployed · 87.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $317K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 30 current checks pass · 3 findings to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 50/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D expense reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D revenue reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.