Advance Pathways

Legal name: Advance Inc Dba Advance Pathways

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
920913190
IRS 990 coverage
2023–2025
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Aurora, CO, USA
Phone
970-299-5960
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$7,816,289
Expenses
$5,706,336
Assets
$4,681,109
Liabilities
$247,105

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • JIM GOEBELBECKER (Executive Dir.): $188,874 total reported compensation
  • ANDREW BOGAGE (FINANCE/ADMIN DIR): $114,931 total reported compensation
  • PETER BARON (DEVELOPMENT DIR): $113,370 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Advance provides pathways to recovery that create self-esteem, dignity, and independence for people experiencing homelessness.

What it reported doing in 2025

In 2025, Advance transitioned our operations to the newly developed Aurora Regional Navigation Campus (Navigation Campus), centralizing our services to maximize effectiveness and efficiency. A cornerstone of this effort includes fostering collaborative relationships with 15+ partner organizations, each selected for their specialized expertise in critical service areas such as mental health, substance use treatment, workforce development, and obtaining vital documents. We officially launched the Navigation Campus on November 17, 2025 and housed about 150 adults the first night, and by mid-December we consistently served about 375 people nightly.Throughout 2025, Advance Pathways successfully supported 1,981 unique individuals in the Day Center and 1,990 with Overnight services that began in January. Among these individuals, 307 actively engaged in personalized case management to further their development goals. The organization's team grew more than fourfold within approximately four months, expanding from nine dedicated professionals to over 40. This accelerated growth was challenging yet crucial to meeting the emergent needs of Aurora's unhoused population, exemplifying Advances agility and dedication in adapting to evolving community demands and solidifying its critical role within the local continuum of care. Advance Pathways made the difficult decision not to renew the leases for the sober living homes in order to focus on the Navigation Campus. We are proud of what we were able to accomplish with the Community Members in the transitional housing sober living program. Specifically, we had 97% alumni engagement, 81% in stable living situations, 69% employed, 86% still sober, and 53% were actively attending recovery groups. Here are a few quotes from our Community Members. I am with my son every day now. I spent the holidays with family. Advance Pathways staff is very supportive. I am rebuilding important relationships.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 69% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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

SUPPORTED - 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 72
  • Transparency & Controls: 70
  • Accountability: 91
  • Sustainability: 57
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 63.1%; rating input score 63
  • Program expense ratio: 85.8%; rating input score 86
  • Fundraising efficiency: $34.96 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • 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: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 27%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.82; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 7.3%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 102.7% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 77.6% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 60.1% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 63.1% of revenue deployed · 85.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4.9M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $189K · 11 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 43/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 59/100.