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GROW CEDAR VALLEY

EIN 42-1241941 WATERLOO, IA

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Revenue 2024
$2,192,215
Expenses 2024
$2,315,856

Program services were 100.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
06
Classification
2000
Street
360 WESTFIELD AVENUE

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

WORKING TO INCREASE THE ECONOMIC VITALITY AND WEALTH IN THE WATERLOO/CEDAR FALLS AREA AND SURROUNDING ECONOMIC REGION.

  • ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES AIMED AT PROMOTING THE WATERLOO/CEDAR FALLS, IOWA METROPOLITAN AREA TO NEW AND EXISTING BUSINESSES.

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Katy Susong

    PRESIDENT /

    Total calculated
    $184,649
    From this org
    $155,425
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $29,224
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $149,950
    Bonus
    $5,000
    Other
    $475
    Deferred
    $5,015
    Nontaxable benefits
    $24,209
    Filer's total
    $184,649
  • James Schaefer

    DIR. OF INVE

    Total calculated
    $141,941
    From this org
    $124,555
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,386
    Hours/week
    40
  • Sandi Sommerfelt

    VP OF OPERAT

    Total calculated
    $141,666
    From this org
    $122,245
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $19,421
    Hours/week
    40
  • Lisa Skubal

    VP OF ECONOM

    Total calculated
    $135,472
    From this org
    $125,534
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,938
    Hours/week
    40
  • Carolyn Darrah

    PAST SECRETA

    Total calculated
    $117,109
    From this org
    $107,968
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,141
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $107,968
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $4,958
    Nontaxable benefits
    $4,183
    Filer's total
    $117,109
  • David Wilson Ccim

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Renee Christoffer

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Vicki Parsons

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Mike Mallaro

    PAST CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Melissa Reade

    LEADER VALLE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Susan Abernathy

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Kim Bear

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Edita Begic

    AT LARGE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Joy Briscoe

    AT LARGE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • James Bronner

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Fabio Castro

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Dave Deaver

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Dr Rebecca Ehretsman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Tavis Hall

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Kris Hansen

    AT LARGE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Mayor Quentin Hart

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Dr Todd Holcomb

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Kathryn Kunert

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Mayor Danny Laudick

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Ryan Meyer

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

The first 25 listed. Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,192,215
    Expenses
    $2,315,856
    Contributions
    $1,303,768
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,261,185
    Expenses
    $2,196,086
    Contributions
    $1,443,225
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,150,725
    Expenses
    $1,656,713
    Contributions
    $1,295,698
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,840,706
    Expenses
    $1,562,838
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,127,308
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,633,059
    Expenses
    $1,576,271
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,957,293
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,863,260
    Expenses
    $1,622,259
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,026,288
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,795,143
    Expenses
    $1,865,969
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,822,911
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,853,142
    Expenses
    $1,848,106
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,716,539
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,832,983
    Expenses
    $1,753,352
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,719,772
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,808,834
    Expenses
    $1,760,918
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,183,261
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,673,911
    Expenses
    $1,411,312
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,636,749
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,699,976
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,992,547
  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $2,086,868
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,060,842

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Not present in the most recent drop.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.