Bay Area First Step
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 931193250
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- North Bend, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5416223761
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alcohol, Drug Abuse, Treatment Only
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $7,358,924
- Expenses
- $4,295,457
- Assets
- $8,826,223
- Liabilities
- $1,949,576
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHRIS VON LOBEDON (PRESIDENT/CHAIR)
- STEVE SANDEN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- STEVE SANDEN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $129,626 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Providing a safe alcohol and drug free environment to empower those who are served to affect their own recovery.
What it reported doing in 2024
Lakeview village: the organization and Oregon housing and community services (ohcs) entered into an agreement, recorded by the coos county clerk, Oregon, on march 12, 2001, to acquire and rehabilitate a 16-unit housing project, known as lakeview village, to provide housing for low and very low income persons. On february 7, 2006, the coos county clerk, Oregon, recorded an ohcs affordable housing tax credit program declaration of land use restrictive covenants that declared the organization as owner of lakeview village. The organization is required to rent lakeview village units to individuals or families whose income is less than 80% of the area median gross income as determined by hud for a period of 30 years. For the year ended june 30, 2025, lakeview village had total expenses of $112,831, and total program revenue of $86,104.peer delivery services: community-based services and supports are provided by peers, and peer specialists, to individuals and family members with similar lived experience. These services are intended to support individuals and families to engage in ongoing treatment and to live successfully in the community. The peer delivered services also aid with the acquisition of safe, permanent housing, engagement in vocational or educational activities, and freedom from criminal acts. For the year ended june 30, 2025, peer services had total expenses of $735,707 and total program revenue of $73,501.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 69% 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 55
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 74
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 49.4%; rating input score 49
- Program expense ratio: 83.9%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- 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: 41.6%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.05; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.22; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 20% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 21.2% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.7% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 49.4% of revenue deployed · 83.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $3.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $130K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 49/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.