Along the Way
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 611720030
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2023
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Souderton, PA, USA
- Phone
- 4843063374
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,491,386
- Expenses
- $1,304,351
- Assets
- $969,009
- Liabilities
- $629,534
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KRISTINA VALDEZ MSW (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- KRISTINA VALDEZ MSW (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $76,063 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provide holistic, family-centered support to help children thrive by equipping parents, especially single parents, with the tools, services, and child care they need to achieve economic stability.
What it reported doing in 2023
We provide affordable, reliable, high-quality in-home child care for familiesespecially single-parent familieswith low to moderate incomes who are working or attending school/training, including evenings and weekends. This service is designed to support children's stability and well-being by mitigating child care barriers that prevent parents from maintaining employment or pursuing economic mobility.in addition to child care, we provide wraparound supports including: case management, resource coordination, barrier mitigation and workforce development to address the complex obstacles that families face. Our services prioritize family stability, housing security, and income growth as mechanisms to break intergenerational cycles of poverty ultimately centering child well-being through the empowerment of caregivers.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 83% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 85
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 64.3%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 73.8%; rating input score 74
- Fundraising efficiency: $18.4 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 8th 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: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 12.5%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.74; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.65; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.8%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 92.4% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 80.7% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 82.2% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 64.3% of revenue deployed · 73.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $963K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $76K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 28 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2023
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 57/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 51/100.