New Avenues for Youth Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
930910213
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Portland, OR, USA
Phone
5032244339
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Standard

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$15,030,600
Expenses
$13,846,401
Assets
$18,023,117
Liabilities
$3,624,239

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

29 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • SEAN SUIB (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • SEAN SUIB (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $221,936 total reported compensation
  • REBEKAH DEAL (DIRECTOR OF FINANCE): $170,216 total reported compensation
  • LAUREN EADS (DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR): $149,729 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

New avenues for youth is a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending youth homelessness. Since 1997, our services have impacted more than 30,000 young people, helping them move toward stability and well-being. Our wide range of intersecting programming includes drop-in services, substance-use recovery and mental-health supports, workforce-development services (including social enterprises), education, housing and shelter, culturally specific lgbtqia2s+ supports, foster-care transition supports, services for youth experiencing sexual exploitation and trafficking, family mediation and reunification, and more.

What it reported doing in 2024

New avenues for youth is a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending youth homelessness. Since 1997, we have supported more than 30,000 young people as they work to overcome barriers, find stability, and move forward. Our wide range of programming includes drop-in services, substance-use recovery and mental-health supports, job training and employment (including social enterprises), education, housing and shelter, culturally specific supports for lgbtqia2s+ youth and for youth experiencing sex trafficking, foster-care transition supports, family mediation and reunification, and more. Our mobile outreach teams are also in schools and the community to engage unstably-housed youth, connect them to services, and stop homelessness before it starts. (see continuation on schedule o) in the 2024-25 program year, 1,259 youth accessed services at new avenues, including 215 in our housing programs, 414 in drop-in (with 13,048 meals served), 157 in the alba collaborative (which provides crisis intervention and stabilization supports for youth ages 9-17 in east multnomah county), 346 in our lgbtqia2s+ services, 182 in our substance-use recovery services, and 186 in our new day program for youth experiencing sex trafficking. We facilitated 161 housing placements for youth in the community and made 313 emergency-shelter placements through the alba collaborative. One hundred percent of youth who exited our case management services and our moxie transitional housing remained in stable housing one year after exiting those programs. Our east connect mobile outreach team, which connected with 7,000 community members, regularly visited 16 public high schools to distribute supplies and connect unstably-housed youth to shelter, case management, family reunification services, and wraparound supports. The alba collaborativewhich also establishes safe place sites throughout the community (businesses, service providers, and spaces frequented by youth that can link them to us for services)ranked #2 nationally in the number of safe place sites established and community contacts made through outreach.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 74% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 69
  • Transparency & Controls: 84
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 55
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 68%; rating input score 68
  • Program expense ratio: 71.6%; rating input score 72
  • Fundraising efficiency: $25.89 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Pass
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • 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: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 7.9%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.3; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.2; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 5.8%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 10.2% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 68% of revenue deployed · 71.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 23 of 23 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $9.9M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $222K · 29 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $228K reported
  • Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 4 filed related-organization links
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 44/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 58/100.