Join the Journey
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 202374117
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Rochester, MN, USA
- Phone
- 5072063212
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Health Program (Includes General Health and Wellness Promotion Services)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $25,044
- Expenses
- $35,220
- Assets
- $154,899
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JENNIFER SCHIMEK (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JENNIFER SCHIMEK (PRESIDENT)
- SHERRI MCMEEKING (VICE PRESIDE)
- KARLA MEESE (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To reach women of all ages in the rochester community with information about breast cancer awareness and to provide support to newly diagnosed women with breast cancer. To accomplish this, join the journey sponsors projects and programs to provide community education/outreach and direct patient support.
What it reported doing in 2024
Making waves program: this is a floating support group of join the journey. Research has shown that breast cancer survivors who engage in repetitive activities, such as paddling, develop a marked improvement in both physical and mental health. Equipped with the positive effects of dragon boating, a group of enthusiastic breast cancer survivors and supporters paddle every wednesday evening in the summer on silver lake in rochester, Minnesota and hold quarterly social events. The team continues to meet in the winter months for social activities. Making waves paddles every wednesday in june, july and august on silver lake rochester. There were 24 active team members in 2024. Cooking up hope: join the journey volunteers coordinate with hope lodge to provide and serve supper to the residents of hope lodge twice a year. Many of the residents are receiving treatment during their stay, so having a group come in and prepare and serve a meal to them is a great kindness. Our volunteers visit with the residents and hear about their families and lives beyond the cancer diagnosis. We strive to give them a night free of worry and stress. Average attendence is 70 to 80 individuals.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 88% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.1%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 61.5%; rating input score 62
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -40.6%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.4; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -9.8% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -11.9% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.6% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 88.1% of revenue deployed · 61.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $22K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.