Together We Achieve
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 853107151
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Center Point, IA, USA
- Phone
- 3194329754
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Emergency Assistance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $209,805
- Expenses
- $134,468
- Assets
- $137,528
- Liabilities
- $180
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RAYMOND SIDDELL (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- RAYMOND SIDDELL (PRESIDENT): $33,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Together we achieve unites the personnel, skills and resources of people from all walks of life and deploys them in times of need. Distributing food, supplies, equipment and other essentials to those in need.
What it reported doing in 2024
Holiday Food Box Program In the holiday season of Fiscal Year 2024, Together We Achieve distributed a total of 1,000 Holiday Food Boxes, with 500 provided in November and 500 in December to support families during periods of increased need. Each box weighed an average of 42 pounds and included ingredients needed to prepare a traditional holiday meal for a family of four, along with pantry staples to sustain households during extended school breaks. Families registered in advance and picked up their boxes during scheduled distributions. Looking ahead to 2025, Together We Achieve is leading a collaborative effort with other area food pantries, church pantries, and school-based pantries to expand the impact of this program regionally. This partnership, which began development in 2024, aims to reduce duplication of services and increase the number of families served by coordinating registration and distribution efforts. The collaboration will utilize Together We Achieves custom CRM and online registration portal, provided at no cost to participating organizations, to streamline access and improve service delivery across the region.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 94% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 55.7%; rating input score 56
- Program expense ratio: 86.6%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $473.06 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 9th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: 35.9%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.02; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 24.5%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.7% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 55.7% of revenue deployed · 86.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $117K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $33K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 20 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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: Mission deployment rate scored 56/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 56/100.