Journey International

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
852530168
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2021, Form 990-N 2020
Location
Prineville, OR, USA
Phone
5414204221
Rating
61
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Standard
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$513,154
Expenses
$464,226
Assets
$304,412
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • RHONDA RHODEN (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • RUSSELL RHODEN (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • RHONDA RHODEN (VICE PRESIDENT): $55,660 total reported compensation
  • RUSSELL RHODEN (PRESIDENT): $5,060 total reported compensation
  • SHELLI LARIMER (SECRETARY): $3,929 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To serve family and community needs through education, teaching, vocational training, medical care, nutrition, food, clean water, encouragement, church planting, and training.

What it reported doing in 2025

Odek outreach program - to bring hope & healing to the children, families and communites suffering from a mysterious condition known as nodding syndrome. To com alongside the village locals who are facing extreme poverty and child vulnerability, illiteracy, medicine, medical, hunger, hygiene and lac of resources to proved for sustainable living. We meet these needs through church services, conferences, outreach, counseling, biblical training, bible distribution (both hard copy & audio), skills training (agriculture, tailoring, baking, craft making, hair dressing, local production of mats & clay pots). Serving alongside local governmetns in mdical and hygiene facilitation and distribution.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 79% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 88
  • Transparency & Controls: 55
  • Accountability: 9
  • Sustainability: 49
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 86.1%; rating input score 86
  • Program expense ratio: 95.2%; rating input score 95
  • Fundraising efficiency: $63.52 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Claims monitoring procedures: Fail
    • Requires narrative reports: Fail
    • Conducts field audits: Fail
    • May suspend future funding: Fail
    • Requires financial reports: Fail
    • Conducts site visits: Fail
    • Requires grant agreements: Fail
    • May require repayment: Fail
  • Grant itemization coverage: 0%; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 9.5%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.66; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 13.9%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 21.4% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 23.3% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 29.4% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 86.1% of revenue deployed · 95.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 0 of 5 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $442K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $56K · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 22 of 23 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 8 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 27/100.