ACCESS FOR SPECIAL KIDS RESOURCE CENTER INC

EIN 42-1489784 JOHNSTON, IA

Revenue 2024: $1,298,434
Expenses 2024: $1,274,072

Program services were 97.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection: 03
NTEE code: R23
Classification: 1200
Street: 6165 NW 86TH ST STE 234

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

THE MISSION OF ACCESS FOR SPECIAL KIDS RESOURCE CENTER, INC. IS TO PROVIDE INNOVATIVE AND COLLABORATIVE INFORMATION, TRAINING, RESOURCES AND SUPPORT TO INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES, THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS AND THE PEOPLE WHO SERVE THEM.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO SUPPORT FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES.

ACCESS FOR SPECIAL KIDS RESOURCE CENTER, INC., ASK RESOURCE CENTER, EXISTS TO PROVIDE INNOVATIVE AND COLLABORATIVE INFORMATION, EDUCATION, PROFESSIONAL ADVOCACY AND RESEARCH BASED FAMILY TO FAMILY MENTORING SUPPORT TO PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS AND THE PROFESSIONALS WHO SUPPORT THEM. THROUGH VARIOUS, CORE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES, ASK RESOURCE CENTER HELPS TO ENSURE THE CIVIL RIGHTS OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AND THEIR FAMILIES BY OFFERING ASSISTANCE IN NAVIGATING THE COMPLEX EDUCATION, COMMUNITY LIVING AND HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS THAT BECOME A PART OF LIFE WHEN LIFE IS TOUCHED BY DISABILITY. ASK RESOURCE CENTER SERVES THE ENTIRE STATE OF IOWA UTILIZING A BOARD OF DIRECTORS, A CORPORATE ADVISORY BOARD, STAFF AND A VOLUNTEER NETWORK -- ALMOST OF WHOM ARE PEOPLE WITH LIVED EXPERIENCE IN DISABILITY ISSUES,CIVIL RIGHTS AND DISABILITY ADVOCACY.IN FISCAL YEAR 2024-2025, ASK RESOURCE CENTER PROVIDED OVER 52,000 INSTANCES OF TRAINING AND INDIVIDUALIZED ASSISTANCE, OFFERED MORE THAN 700,000 INSTANCES OF INFORMATION DISSEMINATION AND REFERRALS,TRAINED 11 NEW VOLUNTEER MENTORS ACROSS IOWA,FACILITATED 31 MATCHES FOR TRAINED MENTORS TO FAMILIES IN NEED OF ASSISTANCE, AND FACILITATED 16 MATCHES OF TRAINED FAMILY LEADERS TO LEADERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES AT THE LOCAL, STATE AND NATIONAL LEVELS.

Expenses $1,236,232

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.

KAREN THOMPSON

EXECUTIVE DI

Total calculated

$128,428

From this org

$112,776

From related orgs

$0

Other

$15,652

Hours/week

40
MELANIE GAGE

PRESIDENT

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
TIM GEELS RESIGNED SEP 2025

VICE PRESIDE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
KEN GERTLER

TREASURER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
SHELLIE PETERS

SECRETARY

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
JOANNE MOELLER RESIGNED OCT 2024

SECRETARY

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
TAMMY RASMUSSEN

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
DOMONIQUE BENFORD

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
RHONDA HAITZ

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
JOYCE LEVINGSTON

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5

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

2024

Revenue

$1,298,434

Expenses

$1,274,072

Contributions

$1,285,489

Grants paid

$0
2023

Revenue

$832,802

Expenses

$798,548

Contributions

$807,585

Grants paid

$0
2022

Revenue

$639,542

Expenses

$634,693

Contributions

$635,884

Grants paid

$0

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2024	$1,298,434	$1,274,072	$1,285,489	$0
2023	$832,802	$798,548	$807,585	$0
2022	$639,542	$634,693	$635,884	$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

$607,000

Expenses

$601,052

Assets (EOY)

$406,499
2020 · 990

Revenue

$579,660

Expenses

$592,468

Assets (EOY)

$404,582
2019 · 990

Revenue

$694,862

Expenses

$684,350

Assets (EOY)

$439,992
2018 · 990

Revenue

$761,051

Expenses

$709,462

Assets (EOY)

$404,357
2017 · 990

Revenue

$582,320

Expenses

$560,170

Assets (EOY)

$348,451
2016 · 990

Revenue

$628,686

Expenses

$616,453

Assets (EOY)

$319,347
2015 · 990

Revenue

$633,630

Expenses

$561,052

Assets (EOY)

$318,802
2014 · 990

Revenue

$538,680

Expenses

$535,958

Assets (EOY)

$295,020
2013 · 990

Revenue

$535,926

Expenses

$494,969

Assets (EOY)

$233,162
2010 · 990

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

$227,952

Assets (EOY)

$21,718

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2021	990	$607,000	$601,052	$406,499
2020	990	$579,660	$592,468	$404,582
2019	990	$694,862	$684,350	$439,992
2018	990	$761,051	$709,462	$404,357
2017	990	$582,320	$560,170	$348,451
2016	990	$628,686	$616,453	$319,347
2015	990	$633,630	$561,052	$318,802
2014	990	$538,680	$535,958	$295,020
2013	990	$535,926	$494,969	$233,162
2010	990	not reported	$227,952	$21,718

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

COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES

$20,000

2024 GRANT DISTRIBUTION
COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES

$20,000

2024 GRANT DISTRIBUTION
WISCONSIN FAMILY ASSISTANCE CENTER FOR EDUCATION TRAINING AND SUPPORT

$11,470

2024 Strategic Plan
FAMILY VOICES

$6,375

2023

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.