Journeys Soaring Impact
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 814575155
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Cincinnati, OH, USA
- Phone
- 5137312930
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Job Training
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $39,510
- Expenses
- $99,745
- Assets
- $1,490
- Liabilities
- $245,496
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Sheila Garten (President)
- Daniel Rayford (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Sheila Garten (President)
- Daniel Rayford (Vice President)
- Jilson Daniels (Treasurer)
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
Journeys Soaring Impact, founded in 2016 by Journey Steel Inc. partners Barb Smith and Tom Garten, is dedicated to *changing lives and generations* by opening pathways to skilled careers in ironworking. As a certified Ironworking Pre-Apprenticeship Program under the Ohio State Apprenticeship Council OSAC, our mission is to prepare underserved and disadvantaged inner-city high school students for sustainable, life-changing employment in construction. We exist to create equity and opportunity by addressing two urgent challenges: the underrepresentation of youth and diversity in the construction trades, and the need to cultivate a new generation of skilled ironworkers as the industry ages. By engaging students beginning the summer after their junior year, Journeys Soaring Impact provides hands-on training, career readiness, and mentorship that connect education with a real career path. Through this work, we not only empower young people to break cycles of poverty but also strengthen the c
What it reported doing in 2025
Journeys Soaring Impact, founded in 2016 by Journey Steel Inc. partners Barb Smith and Tom Garten, is dedicated to *changing lives and generations* by opening pathways to skilled careers in ironworking. As a certified Ironworking Pre-Apprenticeship Program under the Ohio State Apprenticeship Council OSAC, our mission is to prepare underserved and disadvantaged inner-city high school students for sustainable, life-changing employment in construction. We exist to create equity and opportunity by addressing two urgent challenges: the underrepresentation of youth and diversity in the construction trades, and the need to cultivate a new generation of skilled ironworkers as the industry ages. By engaging students beginning the summer after their junior year, Journeys Soaring Impact provides hands-on training, career readiness, and mentorship that connect education with a real career path. Through this work, we not only empower young people to break cycles of poverty but also strengthen the construction workforce with diversity, skill, and resilienceultimately building stronger communities for generations to come.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 11
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -152.5%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.01; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 164.76; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 135% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.