The House Cafe Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
814885225
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2020
Location
Ogden, KS, USA
Phone
7852247544
Rating
66
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$260,618
Expenses
$244,723
Assets
$428,631
Liabilities
$4,331

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CHRISTOPHER JACOBS (PRESIDENT)
  • JONATHAN ANSCHUTZ (VICE-PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • BILLIE ANTILLA (BOARD MEMBER): $16,401 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Endeavors that will equip and empower ogden children and youth with resources, abilities, and education to escape a generational cycle of poverty. These endeavors confront, without limitations, contributing factors to poverty such as drug abuse, high crime rates, lack of recreational activities, unemployment, and substandard education or educational resources, and any other factors which contribute to the continuation of the poverty cycle of youth and children in ogden, Kansas. Currently profits, grants, and donations provide college scholarships, fund a youth recreation center and activities hosted within, student internships in the organization, scholarships for after school activities, tutoring, job training, and we also fund the operation of an income based childcare facility.

What it reported doing in 2025

We have provided multiple students with college scholarships and have assisted in the college application process. Many of our students do not have the support structure at home, and lack the confidence to fill out these forms or applications on their own. Our organization has assisted students in planning future education goals and implementing those goals into action steps. We also fund student interships, after school activities, and we have, and continue to, fund recreational activities on the weekends. These events take the teens off the streets on the weekend and give them a healthy environment with video games, board games, billiards and more. Dinner, snacks, and events are provided free of charge to all students in our community. It is our aim to provide opportunities to reach and support as many students in our community as we can, including those of different ages, cultures, and backgrounds. In this effort and according to our mission, we have expanded to reach children ages 30 months to 6 years old through the building of the early learning center. Children who grow up in homes of poverty hear roughly 30 million less words than children growing up in college educated homes. We have seen that the generational cycle of poverty begins in the early development years. This year we opened an income based childcare center, emphasizing low income families from ogden, ks. We offer affordable childcare (roughly 10% of monthly income) and focus on social, emotional, and academic development, in order to equip low income students to begin pre-k at the same starting position as their peers. Often times low income students are beginning kindergarten behind their peers in these areas, and our childcare center has built a curriculum specific to the behaviors and developmental challenges we have seen in low income students from ogden, ks. We offer parenting classes and volunteer opportunities for additional discounted childcare rates, so that we can help parents consider alternative perspectives to parenting, discipline, and finances.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 71% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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 most voting board members are independent. 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: 42
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 70
  • Sustainability: 48
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 49.1%; rating input score 49
  • Program expense ratio: 42.7%; rating input score 43
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • 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: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 6.1%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.75; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 6.7%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 13.2% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 12.3% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 18.3% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 49.1% of revenue deployed · 42.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $105K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $16K · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 49/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 43/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 29/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 39/100.