Bear Paw Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 821607426
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2020
- Location
- Newport, WA, USA
- Phone
- 5094473900
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $666,380
- Expenses
- $549,255
- Assets
- $263,160
- Liabilities
- $6,838
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- JASON MCQUINN (DIRECTOR): $54,000 total reported compensation
- BETH MCQUINN (ADMINISTRATO): $11,923 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To help develop disciples, fully devoted followers of christ. Our primary goal in support of this mission is to provide a safe, wholesome and affordable locale for organizations to meet for fellowship, teaching and to conduct special events for the spiritual benefit of their staff, congregations and membership.
What it reported doing in 2024
Bear paw currently offers 196 beds dispersed between lodges and micro- cabins, 8 rv sites, a full commercial kitchen, dinning facilities, meeting hall and game area. Outdoor activities include athletic field, volleyball courts, high and low ropes courses, swimming pool, 750 feet of waterfront on the pend oreille river, boating, fishing, archery, basketball, and covered pavilion. Bear paw is available year-round with fully winterized facilities. During the year, the organization served approximately 1,800 campers.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 65% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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 - 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 60
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.8%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 88.2%; rating input score 88
- 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: 75%; rating input score 75; 16th 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: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17.6%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.48; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 24.4% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 30.3% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.5% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72.8% of revenue deployed · 88.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 8 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $484K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $54K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 31/100.