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CAREER EDVANTAGE

EIN 84-1914779 COUNCIL BLFS, IA

Revenue 2024
$3,104,990
Expenses 2024
$3,135,455

Program services were 81.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B90
Classification
1200
Street
900 WOODBURY AVE STE 11C

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).

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.

  • ED MAY

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KEN BIRD

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $555,344
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $521,357
    Other
    $33,987
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $340,653 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $180,704 related
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $10,350 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $23,637 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $555,344 related

  • MICHAEL ALVANO

    VP/TREASURER/SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $305,713
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $249,665
    Other
    $56,048
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $226,665 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $23,000 related
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $29,852 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $26,196 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $305,713 related

  • CARA COOL-TREDE

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (SWIA)

    Total calculated
    $192,202
    From this org
    $145,467
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $46,735
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $130,467
    Bonus
    $15,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $15,983
    Nontaxable benefits
    $30,752
    Filer's total
    $192,202

  • NOELLE NELSON

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (DSM)

    Total calculated
    $214,445
    From this org
    $171,503
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $42,942
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $156,503
    Bonus
    $15,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $19,826
    Nontaxable benefits
    $23,116
    Filer's total
    $214,445

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 — 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
    $3,104,990
    Expenses
    $3,135,455
    Contributions
    $3,008,135
    Grants paid
    $336,822
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,394,443
    Expenses
    $2,592,752
    Contributions
    $3,302,878
    Grants paid
    $226,324
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,970,201
    Expenses
    $1,989,486
    Contributions
    $2,902,905
    Grants paid
    $116,291

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.

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

Listed as of 10 September 2026, under deductibility SO.

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.