Dawns House Corporation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
472553213
IRS 990 coverage
2019–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Bend, OR, USA
Phone
5416204572
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Public Foundations

Reported finances

Revenue
$385,262
Expenses
$538,581
Assets
$0
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CRAIG LADKIN (VICE PRESIDENT/TREASURER)
  • SUE SOLITZ (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • CRAIG LADKIN (VICE PRESIDENT/TREASURER)
  • SHEILA ALBEKE (SECRETARY)
  • SUE SOLITZ (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Dawns house provides support to displaced women who are recovering from addiction and alcoholism through structured, guided, sober transitional housing. Dawns house operates a home in bend with 7 beds. It is one of only two public sober living facilities for women in central Oregon. The mission of dawns house is to provide a safe and compassionate living option for newly sober women seeking long-term recovery. Dawns house helps to break the chain of addiction and alcoholism, promotes personal and community responsibility, and gives women in the program an opportunity to live productive and fulfilling lives.

What it reported doing in 2025

The keys to success at dawns house are compassion, organization, and structure. Through adherence to concrete house rules, participants gain a sense of consistency, accountability, and respect, which are important components of sober, peaceful, happy living. Dawns house success of service from may 2015 to june 2025, 930+ individuals seeking recovery were admitted to dawns house and given safety and shelter. - 320 are/were mothers working to reunite with their children - 100% were homeless, unemployed, and /or at or below poverty level when entering the home; 90% acquired employment within 30 days of residing at dawns house - 73% successfully transitioned out of the home and remain sober and out of the criminal justice system; we are no longer offering the program and unfortunately dawns house has closed as of june 15, 2025 - 215 volunteer and give back to central Oregon - dawns house has helped promote self-sufficiency and personal advancement through assistance in acquiring driver's licenses, opening bank accounts, and furthering education through ged programs or enrollment in central Oregon community college - dawns house has helped participants develop a sense of self and community through personalized programs, house meetings and in-house activities such as nutrition workshops, yoga classes, motivational speakers, group 12-step meetings, meditation, game/movie nights communal dinners/bbqs, self-care days, and exercise/morning walks.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 78% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 88% of its reported program spending out as grants.

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 expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 85
  • Transparency & Controls: 87
  • Accountability: 76
  • Sustainability: 11
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 89%; rating input score 89
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 96.4%; rating input score 96; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • 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: -39.8%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -9.5% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 0.5% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 89% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $479K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 22 of 23 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes grants
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 11 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 11 filed related-organization links
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.