In My Backyard
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 842773889
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Portland, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5036603105
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Homeless Centers
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $82,720
- Expenses
- $87,089
- Assets
- $24,291
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Bertrand Fitzgerald (President)
People named in this filing
- Emma Fitzgerald (Director)
- Leia Smith (Director)
- Meaghen Igloria (Director)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
In my backyard supports simone weil house, a domestic catholic community in the tradition of the catholic worker movement. Simone weil house provides hospitality to those in housing need and serves as a node for neighborhood-scale social, economic, intellectual, and spiritual life. In my backyard also exists to support and manage household, church, and other community-based expressions of the above mentioned functions of simone weil house.
What it reported doing in 2024
Provided for groceries and household expenses for occupants and others in the community needing food, clothing and other supplies. Supported occupants in obtaining medical care and appropriate permanent housing.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 93
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.2%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 90.5%; rating input score 90
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: -5.3%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.28; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.4%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.2% per year; rating input score 0; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.1% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 95.2% of revenue deployed · 90.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $79K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.