Alexs Way C/O Maribeth Wuertz

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
884248106
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Highland Heights, OH, USA
Phone
4404772621
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution

Reported finances

Revenue
$72,402
Expenses
$35,289
Assets
$101,264
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Bill Wuertz (President)
  • Maribeth Wuertz (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Bill Wuertz (President)
  • Maribeth Wuertz (Executive Director)
  • Patrick Bacon (Board Member)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

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

Overview

Mission

1. Raise awareness of behavioral health issues and resources related to adolescents.2. Raise money to fund effective behavioral health therapy for adolescents who cannot afford needed treatment.

What it reported doing in 2025

Provided financial sponsorships for recipients receiving behavioral health therapy (dialectical behavior therapy) at an accredited therapy center. Sponsorships vary depending on the needed therapy. Typically, sponsorships involve a 24-week treatment program including weekly individual and group therapy sessions. Covered up to 52 additional weeks of follow-up therapy as required. Follow-up, generally, involves weekly individual therapy sessions. In addition, provided behavior health information and resources at our fundraising event through a therapist that was available to answer questions and distribute written information materials. Lastly, posted information regarding behavioral health therapy (dialectical behavior therapy) on our website, including informational video.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 60% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 58
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 78
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 41.8%; rating input score 42
  • Program expense ratio: 85.8%; rating input score 86

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 51.3%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.87; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 43.1% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 18.8% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 46.6% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 41.8% of revenue deployed · 85.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $30K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 42/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.