Maslow Project
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 270734969
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Medford, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5416086868
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,553,170
- Expenses
- $3,112,312
- Assets
- $6,609,170
- Liabilities
- $521,188
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARY FERRELL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- MARY FERRELL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $227,268 total reported compensation
- CRISANTO AYSON (FINANCE DIRECTOR): $105,911 total reported compensation
- MATT NORHTROP (PROGRAM DIRECTOR - HOUSING): $99,065 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Maslow projects mission is to offer every homeless child and youth the probability of success and the opportunity for a better life. We do this by providing resources for basic needs, removing barriers to education and employment, and fostering self-sufficiency.
What it reported doing in 2024
Basic needs and outreach: our medford resource center offers a one-stop location for youth to access basic needs and increase immediate connections to supportive services, including: laundry service, hot meals, food boxes, clothing, hygiene supplies, sleeping bags, bus tokens, and emergency assistance. On- and off-site partnerships create a safety net that decreases the possibility of youth getting lost in the system. In addition, maslow projects street outreach workers, including a case manager, go out in teams of two, several days per week, distributing supplies and information/referrals to available services to youth in places where they are known to congregate throughout the county (parks, campgrounds, bike paths, etc.), and encouraging them to visit our resource center.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 62
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.1%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 79.1%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: $42.61 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 12.4%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.12; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.9%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.3% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 70.1% of revenue deployed · 79.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $2.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $227K · 10 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 32 of 33 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.