MEC Disabilities
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 873447916
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Grants Pass, OR, USA
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $115,468
- Expenses
- $130,344
- Assets
- $4,103
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Nikki Sanger (Founder & CEO)
People named in this filing
- Nikki Sanger (Founder & CEO)
- Jessica Hawkins (COO & Outreach Coordinator)
- Savhannah Bourisaw (Secretary)
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
Our primary mission is to bridge the gap and empower individuals with disabilities by offering accessible sensory spaces advocacy for insurance coverage of adaptive equipment support groups educational workshops and community outreach events. Through these initiatives we aim to foster a culture of acceptance understanding and inclusion ensuring that every individual has equal opportunities regardless of their abilities. Our vision is to empower individuals with disabilities creating a more inclusive tomorrow where they have equal access to opportunities resources and support. We envision a society that celebrates diversity and dismantles barriers allowing individuals with disabilities to lead fulfilling lives as valued members of the community.
What it reported doing in 2025
Outreach Events and Sensory Experiences Services Provided: MEC Disabilities hosts inclusive community outreach events awareness campaigns and provides access to sensory-friendly experiences including its flagship Sensory Space. Events are tailored for children with sensory processing challenges and offer accessible judgment-free environments. Number of Persons Benefited: More than 1,000 individuals attended MEC-led events or used sensory spaces in the past year. Other Relevant Information: Events promote community inclusion provide respite opportunities and increase public awareness around disability access and acceptance.
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 14
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.6%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 80.3%; rating input score 80
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -12.9%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.03; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -10.8% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -32.8% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -128.9% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 90.6% of revenue deployed · 80.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $105K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.