Skip to content
Nonprofiteer
← All organizations

BEACON OF LIFE

EIN 42-1253088 DES MOINES, IA

Largest nonprofits in Iowa

Revenue 2023
$1,304,509
Expenses 2023
$963,932

Program services were 57.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
L410
Classification
1000
Street
1717 WOODLAND AVE

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 · 2023

Mission

BEACON OF LIFE IS A RESIDENTIAL CENTER IN DES MOINES, IOWA THAT ASSISTS HOMELESS WOMEN IN THEIR TRANSITION THROUGH A MULTIFACETED APPROACH THAT INCLUDES, BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO, ONE-ON-ONE COUNSELING AND PROGRAMMING ON CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY, BUDGETING, HOUSING, JOB READINESS, EMPLOYMENT PLACEMENT AND PERMANENT HOUSING PLACEMENT.

Activities or mission (Part I)

PROVIDES HOMELESS WOMEN A MULTIFACETED APPROACH THAT INCLUDES ONE-ON-ONE COUNSELING, BUDGETING, HOUSING, JOB READINESS, EMPLOYMENT PLACEMENT, VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN, AND HEALTH ISSUES.

  • HOMELESS SHELTER THAT ASSISTS WOMEN IN THEIR TRANSITION THROUGH A MULTIFACETED APPROACH THAT INCLUDES, BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO, ONE-ON-ONE COUNSELING AND PROGRAMMING ON CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY, BUDGETING, HOUSING, JOB READINESS, EMPLOYMENT PLACEMENT, VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN, HEALTH ISSUES AND MORE.

    Expenses $550,133 · Revenue $199,966

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Shannon Sobek

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Quinlan Riser

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Whitney Judkins

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Katie Caggiano

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Emily Berrier

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Sara Wille

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Dr Kennesha Woods

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Kim Babberl

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Leah Churchill

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Birikisu Vilmael

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Meredith Cooney

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Nina New

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Christa Kuennen

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Andrea Brunk

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Tracy Gryp

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Melissa Vine

    FORMER EXEC. DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $110,038
    From this org
    $106,833
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,205
    Hours/week
    40

  • Amy Landrigan

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,304,509
    Expenses
    $963,932
    Contributions
    $860,126
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $590,770
    Expenses
    $677,984
    Contributions
    $331,236
    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
    $405,611
    Expenses
    $504,254
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,037,116

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $448,232
    Expenses
    $533,221
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,281,260

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $502,347
    Expenses
    $575,429
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,215,223

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,047,926
    Expenses
    $513,884
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,288,342

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $617,511
    Expenses
    $436,572
    Assets (EOY)
    $756,113

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $521,181
    Expenses
    $425,150
    Assets (EOY)
    $625,745

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.

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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.