Lost Dreams Awaken Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 473198605
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- New Kensington, PA, USA
- Phone
- 7242127899
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Counseling
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $920,038
- Expenses
- $851,059
- Assets
- $461,043
- Liabilities
- $91,950
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LAURIE JOHNSON-WADE (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- VONZELL WADE (PRESIDENTDIRECTOR): $109,900 total reported compensation
- LAURIE JOHNSON-WADE (VICE PRESIDENT): $95,459 total reported compensation
- BRANDIE WAUGH (PEER SUPPORT COACH): $26,003 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to promote the right & resources to recover through advocacy, education, and demonstrating the power and proof of long-term recovery. All of our activites are grounded in our mission statement.
What it reported doing in 2024
Bcor-community outreach meetings/education- execution of community outreach meetings via 12-step programs & other venues for educating the community on substance use disorder and overdose awareness. The organization manages over 10,000 visits per year, serving 2,498 unique individuals and serves a community of people in recovery from substance use disorder who envision a world where recovery is understood and promoted.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 95% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 28
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.4%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 92.3%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: $1,495.87 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.5%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.54; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.2; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 44.7%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 63.2% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 57.1% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 25.1% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85.4% of revenue deployed · 92.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 7 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $786K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $110K · 18 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 28 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 13 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.