Age Us
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 831758100
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Clackamas, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5034084088
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,038,401
- Expenses
- $1,088,447
- Assets
- $8,673,891
- Liabilities
- $7,495,929
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- STEPHANIE HOOPER (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- STEPHANIE HOOPER (PRESIDENT): $120,752 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of age + us is to empower communities of all ages to value and care for older adults, especially those who are isolated, poor and underserved. To achieve this purpose the organization will 1) provide education, training and advice to individuals and organizations about issues related to aging populations; 2) analyze governmental policies and the impact of legislation and regulation that affect individuals and organizations related to the aging population; 3) research, prepare, review and edit position papers and articles to educate individuals and organizations related to issues of aging; and 4) develop programs and services based on identified needs for individuals, organizations and communitites related to aging populations.
What it reported doing in 2024
Build and strengthen capacity of communities to better serve low income older adults and their support networks in Oregon utilizing asset based community development principles by accomplishing the following:1. Continued federally funded initiative through the national council on aging via acl, increased vaccination uptake in rural Oregon counties among older adults and people with disabilities. We created local partnerships with senior centers and local public health authorities to host vaccination clinics for both flu and covid. 2. Continued website and online support group for the ties that bind program for grandparents and kinship caregivers raising children that fills the unmet need for training, peer support and resources.3. Continued to provide technical assistance to local public health departments on age-friendly outreach strategies and age bias to achieve equitable health outcomes across the lifespan.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 74
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 46.4%; rating input score 46
- Program expense ratio: 86.8%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $30.17 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
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: 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: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 46.6%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.97; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.86; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 27.8% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 32.7% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 63.8% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 46.4% of revenue deployed · 86.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $945K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $121K · 9 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $244K reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 4 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 46/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 30/100.