Bjorn This Way Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 872529243
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Portland, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5039284877
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Voluntary Health Associations & Medical Disciplines N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $36,699
- Expenses
- $21,634
- Assets
- $209,816
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Aaron Ziegler (President)
- Sven Burke (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Aaron Ziegler (President)
- Jennifer Gill (Secretary)
- Sven Burke (Vice President)
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
Bjorn This Way's mission is to fund speech-language pathology services for people in need to empower them to communicate, socialize, and work. Our vision is for all people to participate in life as fully as possible.
What it reported doing in 2025
We provided xx persons with zz hours of speech-language pathology services.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 87% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 95% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - 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: 42
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 82
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 37.3%; rating input score 37
- Program expense ratio: 51.3%; rating input score 51
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 41.1%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 9.7; rating input score 91; 91st 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: 34.6% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -17.6% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.4% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 37.3% of revenue deployed · 51.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $11K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 37/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 51/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.