Cways Home
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 475274064
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Portland, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5034319919
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $449,235
- Expenses
- $649,090
- Assets
- $1,102,869
- Liabilities
- $1,499,616
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PAUL HAWKS (BOARD PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- NAMAE NTUMAE (DIRECTOR): $151,437 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 create spiritual experiences of connection and wonder that allow people to come home to themselves, to be at home with each other and in their work in the world, and to be at home with the planet.
What it reported doing in 2024
During 2024 cways home achieved the following program accomplishments: * scholarship program: 31 people were able to attend retreats that would otherwise not have been able to attend due to lack of finances. * group retreats: 5 retreats with 29 participants. * individual/couple retreats: held 5 private retreats and 4 private sessions with 10 people in attendance. * training program: held 5 week-long trainings and 4 three-day online module, 1 two-day training retreat, and 1 online module with 148 people in attendance. Continued on schedule o. * mentoring program: provided on going phone mentoring throughout 2024.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 82% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 86% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 21
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 96.7%; rating input score 97
- Program expense ratio: 65.9%; rating input score 66
- Fundraising efficiency: $1 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: -44.5%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.7; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.36; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 23.3%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.2% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.1% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 96.7% of revenue deployed · 65.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $428K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $151K · 4 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 6/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.