Access Alaska Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 920089550
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Anchorage, AK, USA
- Phone
- 9072484777
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,870,085
- Expenses
- $6,563,210
- Assets
- $4,064,867
- Liabilities
- $2,964,429
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ric Nelson (Board President)
People named in this filing
- Ric Nelson (Board President)
- Lori Rogers (Board Vice Pres)
- Garrett Dominick (Board Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Access Alaska Inc.'s Programs promote a society in which persons with disabilities can live and work in the community of their choice. As a community-based independent living provider, Access Alaska, Inc. addresses independent living needs of individuals with disabilities by providing a broad range of independent living services.
What it reported doing in 2024
Program objectives underscore the intent of title vii of the rehabilitation act amendemnts of 1992 by promoting consumer control and the full inclusion of individuals with disabilities in all aspects of community life. Access Alaska, inc.'s program objectives follow the state plan for independent living (spil). The relative importance of each of these issues varies by region of the state. The issues are housing, transportion, services for persons with sensory disabilities, personal assitance services, employment & public awareness. During this reporting period, access Alaska, inc. Received 5,214 service requests from a combination of community members and the 569 individuals actively enrolled in our programs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 81% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97.4%; rating input score 97
- Program expense ratio: 87.1%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -11.8%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.62; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.73; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4.9% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.6% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 97.4% of revenue deployed · 87.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.