J Bar J Youth Services Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 930677650
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Bend, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5413891409
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $15,195,874
- Expenses
- $14,824,438
- Assets
- $12,516,394
- Liabilities
- $1,480,218
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- STEPHANIE ALVSTAD (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- STEPHANIE ALVSTAD (CEO): $184,348 total reported compensation
- DEIDRE KASBERGER (COO): $173,766 total reported compensation
- AUGUSTINE FLORES (CHIEF SAFETY DIRECTOR): $144,895 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Promotes innovative options for at-risk youth and families toward self-sufficiency and personal responsibility.
What it reported doing in 2024
Prevention services are provided through cascade youth & family services, helping kids to the next step toward self-sufficiency: outreach and drop-in hours for meals, showers, and connection to other services. Crisis intervention and emergency shelter gives kids a safe respite while making a plan. Living options for teens (the loft) is a longer term shelter that helps youth finish high school, get a job, and learn life skills. Anti-trafficking project provides comprehensive case management and crisis intervention, assists in creating safety plans, as well as offering much needed emotional support to survivors of sex and labor trafficking. They coordinate the deschutes county commercially sexually exploited children (csec) response team.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 84% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 96% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 77
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.3%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 84%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $494.36 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Pass
- 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; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.4%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.84; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.2% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.1% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 82.3% of revenue deployed · 84% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $12.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $184K · 15 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 34 of 35 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 44/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 43/100.