Greener Pastures Recovery
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 873692025
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Denver, CO, USA
- Phone
- 9703793179
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alcohol, Drug and Substance Abuse, Dependency Prevention and Treatment
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $112,071
- Expenses
- $99,386
- Assets
- $43,902
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- William Orthwein (President)
- Chris Tolk (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- William Orthwein (President)
- Chris Tolk (Vice President)
- Coulter Somes (Secretary)
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
GPR funds and runs Celebrate Recovery Inside CRI 12 step recovery groups, and teaches a comprehensive secular transformational journaling course called Journal Your Journey JYJ inside prisons, jails and rehabs. Greener Pastures helps newly released inmates/patients to reenter the free world by connecting them with outside CR groups and other resources.
What it reported doing in 2025
85 weekly 12 step recovery programs inside 56 different prisons, jails, and rehabs around Colorado and New Mexico, then help inmates with reentry.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.9%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 79.9%; rating input score 80
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.3%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.44; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 48.3% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 32.4% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 33.8% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 70.9% of revenue deployed · 79.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $79K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.