Journey Bags
Legal name: Journey Bags Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 922190507
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Murray, KY, US
- Phone
- 270.227.7739
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cancer
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $98,641
- Expenses
- $48,435
- Assets
- $97,271
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JENNIFER RILEY (PRESIDENT/EXECUTIVE DIRECT)
- HEIDI SHULTZ (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JENNIFER RILEY (PRESIDENT/EXECUTIVE DIRECT)
- ROY RILEY (TREASURER)
- HEIDI SHULTZ (VICE PRESIDENT)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Journey Bags shares love, gives encouragement, and provides resources for those who are navigating their cancer journey.
What it reported doing in 2025
Journey bags distributes bags that are filled with things a cancer patient will need as they begin cancer treatments such as a blanket, water, bottle, caps, and other comfort items. The bag will also include a list of resources to quide them through this difficult journey. The bags will be distributed free of charge to all patients at local hospitals who are receiving a first-time cancer diagnosis. Bags will also be available online for donors to contribute to the cost of the bag and request it to be shipped to a patient anywhere in the united states.
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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 76
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 43.8%; rating input score 44
- Program expense ratio: 88.5%; rating input score 89
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 50.9%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.01; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 150% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 25.8% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 82.4% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 43.8% of revenue deployed · 88.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $43K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 44/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.