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BALANCE AUTISM

EIN 42-1377412 ALTOONA, IA

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Revenue 2024
$25,682,606
Expenses 2024
$25,572,498

Program services were 87.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P820
Classification
1000
Street
1625 ADVENTURELAND DR STE B

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).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE B). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

WE DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR PEOPLE WITH AUTISM.

  • CHILDREN'S AUTISM PROJECT - PROVIDES APPLIED BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS SERVICES TO CHILDREN WITH AUTISM AND PARENT TRAINING.

    Expenses $9,686,670 · Revenue $10,096,790

  • COMMUNITY RESIDENTIAL SERVICES (HCBS) THE COST TO PROVIDE HOME AND COMMUNITY BASED "WAIVER" SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS WITH A PRIMARY DIAGNOSIS OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES TO REMAIN IN OUR RETURN TO THE COMMUNITY.

    Expenses $7,161,304 · Revenue $8,578,908

  • CAMPUS RESIDENTIAL SERVICES-THE COST OF PROVIDING SERVICES TO RESIDENTS IN A TWENTY-FOUR BED INTERMEDIATE CARE FACILITY FOR AUTISTIC ADULTS.

    Expenses $3,698,685 · Revenue $5,417,751

  • YOUTH HOME-THE COST OF PROVIDING SERVICES TO RESIDENTS IN AN EIGHT BED INTERMEDIATE CARE FACILITY FOR AUTISTIC CHILDREN.

    Expenses $1,811,430 · Revenue $967,209

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Steve Muller

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $331,831
    From this org
    $245,474
    From related orgs
    $50,000
    Other
    $36,357
    Hours/week
    39 + 1 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $245,474 + $50,000 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $23,508
    Nontaxable benefits
    $12,849
    Filer's total
    $281,831 + $50,000 related
  • Peg Moses

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $200,159
    From this org
    $177,685
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $22,474
    Hours/week
    39 + 1 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $177,685
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $14,614
    Nontaxable benefits
    $7,860
    Filer's total
    $200,159
  • Evelyn Horton

    VP CHILDREN SERVICES

    Total calculated
    $193,320
    From this org
    $174,825
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $18,495
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $174,825
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $13,585
    Nontaxable benefits
    $4,910
    Filer's total
    $193,320
  • Scott Atwood

    VP ADULT SERVICES

    Total calculated
    $171,992
    From this org
    $162,067
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,925
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $162,067
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $3,326
    Nontaxable benefits
    $6,599
    Filer's total
    $171,992
  • Luann Jahner

    OPERATIONS DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $144,308
    From this org
    $122,855
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $21,453
    Hours/week
    40
  • Alberto Munoz

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Anne Macfarland

    PAST PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Sam Cropper

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Brian Aust

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Brooke Schafer

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Alan Pederson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Nick Bushelle

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Maggie Hanson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Chelsi Harbert

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Brent Carlson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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
    $25,682,606
    Expenses
    $25,572,498
    Contributions
    $561,727
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $24,422,308
    Expenses
    $24,130,515
    Contributions
    $810,016
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $24,138,624
    Expenses
    $23,545,723
    Contributions
    $1,631,846
    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
    $24,798,775
    Expenses
    $21,683,760
    Assets (EOY)
    $19,588,955
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $21,908,503
    Expenses
    $20,521,592
    Assets (EOY)
    $18,713,140
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $18,769,378
    Expenses
    $18,577,777
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,205,465
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $17,630,024
    Expenses
    $17,092,321
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,926,983
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $16,533,700
    Expenses
    $15,642,235
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,788,103
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $13,946,865
    Expenses
    $13,490,040
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,832,535
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $13,199,302
    Expenses
    $12,257,054
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,441,235
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $11,459,949
    Expenses
    $10,407,115
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,565,479
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $9,188,674
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,277,110
  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $8,438,082
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,045,913

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

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Disregarded entities on its 2024 return

  • THE HOMESTEAD CEDAR RAPIDS LLC

    INACTIVE · IA

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

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

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 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.