Athletes Journey Home Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 922789294
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- San Clemente, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9492126146
- Rating
- 58
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $58,178
- Expenses
- $14,804
- Assets
- $43,381
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- IAN MCCALL (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- IAN MCCALL (PRESIDENT)
- VERONIKA STEINHOFF (SECRETARY)
- MARK IRWIN (TREASURER)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Athletes journey home is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping athletes recover from traumatic brain injuries (tbi) and other long-term effects of high-impact sports through integrative wellness, research, and education. Our mission is to bridge the gap between athletic performance and mental health recovery by combining neuroscience, functional medicine, and plant-based therapies. We exist to create a safe space for athletes to heal, share their stories, and access innovative recovery programs that address both mind and body. Our work is vital to the community because it raises awareness about the mental health challenges athletes face and provides actionable, science-backed resources for lasting recovery.
What it reported doing in 2024
Athletes journey home serves athletes worldwide, with a primary focus on those recovering from traumatic brain injuries and mental health challenges resulting from high-impact sports. Our organization currently operates several active programs centered on education, research, and integrative recovery support. The athlete recovery and integration initiative connects athletes with safe, evidence-based healing modalities, including legal psychedelic-assisted therapy retreats and wellness programs in regions where such therapies are permitted. This initiative provides guidance, integration support, and ongoing community connection for athletes navigating post-fight trauma, depression, and neurological recovery. We also run the athletes journey home podcast, hosted by ian mccall and mark irwin, which features conversations with athletes, medical experts, and researchers from around the world. The podcast raises awareness about tbi recovery, mental health, and innovative treatment options, helping to destigmatize alternative healing practices within sports communities. In addition, ajh organizes community outreach events, educational panels, and film screenings throughout the year to expand public understanding of brain injury recovery and psychedelic-assisted wellness. These gatherings foster connection, share success stories, and build bridges between athletes, scientists, and supporters united by the mission of redefining recovery and returning home to oneself. Mark irwin raised 50k while fighting for a world bare knuckle boxing title in dever Colorado for the bkb organization. The owner of the organization donated the 50k so we could host a tbi study and psilocybin retreat in portland Oregon at the experience onward center. Eight world class athletes went through the therapy and we shot a mini documentary showing the amazing results.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 29
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 74
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 14.1%; rating input score 14
- Program expense ratio: 55.2%; rating input score 55
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 74.6%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.93; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 14.1% of revenue deployed · 55.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $8K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 14/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 55/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.