Compass 31
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 811691617
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Colorado Spgs, CO, USA
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Victims' Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $184,014
- Expenses
- $214,584
- Assets
- $61,681
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jennisue Jessen (CEO)
People named in this filing
- Jim Longhofer (Board Member)
- Karla Longhofer (Board Member)
- Scott Hanback (Board Member)
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
Compass 31 works to educate communities schools and law enforcement to be aware of the tricks human traffickers use to exploit men woman and children. Compass 31 also operates a leadership development program where girls get an education find healing and learn life skills.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Bangladesh team works to go to communities groups and schools to use the Priceless Cube educational tool developed by Compass 31 to educate people about the risks of human trafficking. In 2025 the team shared human trafficking awareness with over 39,000 people. They also operate a restoration home where they care for woman and their children get an education find healing and learn life skills.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 82% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% 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. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 78
- Sustainability: 14
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.3%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 57.3%; rating input score 57
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 72.7%; rating input score 73; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -16.6%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.29; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 19.6%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.6% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -7.8% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 67.3% of revenue deployed · 57.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 5 filed program accomplishments · $123K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.