Willis Dady Emergency Shelter Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
421311668
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Cedar Rapids, IA, USA
Phone
3193627555
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$3,735,517
Expenses
$3,460,153
Assets
$10,040,521
Liabilities
$265,358

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

Leadership & pay

15 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • HICKS LUCAS (PRESIDENT)
  • REASNER AMY (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • FAUST ALICIA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • FAUST ALICIA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $107,734 total reported compensation
  • ANDERSON REGINA (FINANCE DIRECTOR): $95,161 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

To empower all experiencing homelessness to build futures of self-sufficiency through advocacy, housing, and employment, with the vision of having a community where everyone has housing, stability, and opportunity.

What it reported doing in 2025

Street outreach: in 2025, we served 185 people who were sleeping unsheltered in linn county. Our street outreach program reaches individuals sleeping in places not meant for human habitation such as in encampments, under bridges, in alleys, or in their vehicles. We are able to connect them with their basic needs such as hygiene products, blankets, pillows, tents and clothing. Our case managers are able to assist clients in this program access vital documents to work towards securing stable housing. In 2022, we expanded our street outreach program to open hector's place day center at our willis dady works employment hub. The day center provides immediate access to shower and laundry facilities for individuals sleeping unsheltered with additional access to immediate case management services and referrals to employment services and job trainings at the employment hub. From april through december 2025, a total of 3,809 showers and laundry services were provided with an average of 35 clients per day.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 91% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 68
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 57
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 71%; rating input score 71
  • Program expense ratio: 75.7%; rating input score 76
  • Fundraising efficiency: $9.42 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 81.4%; rating input score 81; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • 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: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 7.4%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.9; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 5.9%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 17% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 14.8% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 18% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 71% of revenue deployed · 75.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $2.6M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $108K · 15 people listed
  • Consistency: 32 of 34 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 33/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 51/100.