Joining Hands Visitation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 813060230
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2023
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023
- Location
- Lacey, WA, USA
- Phone
- 3608788389
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $235,736
- Expenses
- $385,540
- Assets
- $60,446
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ophelia Nowells (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Ophelia Nowells (Executive Director)
- Nikita A Nowells (Office Manager PCV Coordinator)
- Lois Parks (PCV Specialist)
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 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of Joining Hands Visitation JHV is to provide quality visitation services to families in the communityto provide support for their independence build stronger family ties and better futures one child at a time. We focuson building a strong support network with community organizations and social welfare agencies that empowerchildren in the foster care system as well as those a part of family law matters involved in divorce separation, domestic violence or other societal issues.
What it reported doing in 2023
The mission of Joining Hands Visitation JHV is to help reunite foster care children with their non-custodial parents and to provide support for their independence building stronger family ties and better futures one child at a time. We focus on building a strong network with community organizations and social welfare agencies that empower foster care children and their families in becoming independent and self sufficient. JHV is a state contracted provider for supervised visitation and transportation in Grays Harbor Mason Thurston Pacific counties and in the past year expanded to Pierce Olympic Peninsula and Lower King Counties as well. Due to the Covid-19 the agency also expanded its outreach and began assisting families involved with family law court going thru domestic violence mental health issues separation or divorce have supervised visitation as authorized by the courts. Each situation allows for some semblance of normality for the children caught in the middle.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 100% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: -63.5%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.16; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6.7% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.3% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $386K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 41 of 41 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2017 to 2023
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.