Joseph's Journey
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 841542777
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2014
- Forms available
- Form 990 2014
- Location
- Lakewood, CO, USA
- Phone
- 3039895710
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Children's, Youth Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $56,977
- Expenses
- $55,061
- Assets
- $280,537
- Liabilities
- $208
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2014. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KIM STEUART (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- KIM STEUART (PRESIDENT)
- VICKIE STEUART (SECRETARY/TREASURER)
- DR RALPH QUINONES (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. Selected filing: tax year 2014. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To fulfill dreams for a wilderness experience for children with terminal or life threatening illnesses.
What it reported doing in 2014
The company held a fishing derby where over 400 people including children and their families fished. Denver water provided use of facilities. Safeway managers and employeees volunteered services helping where needed. The Colorado division of wildlife set up fishing clinics to teach the children about fishing and provided rods and reels to each child to use and take home. Denver west trout unlimited helped with cooking and catching fish. West metro fire department, Colorado state patrol, jefferson city sheriff's department were on hand and provided assistance with the fishing. The children were able to see their trucks, vehicles and equipment. Discount fishing provided bait. Colorado bowhunters and american bowman set up and manned an archery range with 3d dinosaur targets. Dreyers ice cream provided ice cream. Carmine leonardo's provided the meat for cooking.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - 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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68.2%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 70.2%; rating input score 70
- Fundraising efficiency: $12.26 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- 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: 3.4%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.1; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 163.9% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 68.2% of revenue deployed · 70.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $39K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 21 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2010 to 2014
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 58/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.