Olalla Center

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
930698327
IRS 990 coverage
2017–2021
Forms available
Form 990 2021
Location
Toledo, OR, USA
Phone
5413362254
Rating
84
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,032,594
Expenses
$2,114,735
Assets
$2,132,550
Liabilities
$768,344

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JERRY FLORES (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • DENISE LEONARD (EXECUTIVE DI): $76,410 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To help strengthen and heal children and families, and the community. Olalla center's staff believes all children and families can heal and this premise is the foundation of olalla center's treatment philosophy and the basis for their work.

What it reported doing in 2021

Walden project program is an innovative new program that combines traditional mental health services like individual, group and family therapy with a mentoring program, all of which is based in an outdoor setting on the beautiful Oregon coast. The vastness of the outdoors provides deep, meaningful experiences for children and their families while creating awareness and familiarity of the community in which they live. The program is expected to have a cumulative effect on children, teens, the foster care system, and the community as a whole. Therapy programs included in the walden project are the pegasus program; an equine-assisted therapy which teams a mental health professional and an equine specialist for individual, family or group sessions. The sessions focus on ground work with horses, no riding, with the horse supporting clients through the use of metaphor and skills. The program uses the egala model of equine-assisted therapy. Learning to fly; pegasus program girls group provides participants with the confidence and ability to work through a variety of life situations by building skills such as mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness. Group sessions include hands on work with horses and an open discussion format where skills are introduced and practiced. A safe place; flexible 12 session group format that pairs nature based activities with storytelling and expressive arts approaches for children elementary to early middle school aged. The program strengthens coping skills and resilience in children who have endured stressors such as divorce, moving, illness, loss of family member, bullying, natural disasters and loss of home.

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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 76
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 28
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 80.8%; rating input score 81
  • Program expense ratio: 77.6%; rating input score 78
  • Fundraising efficiency: $14.99 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • 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: -4%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.01; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.36; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 3.6%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 15.9% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 19.5% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 41% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 80.8% of revenue deployed · 77.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.6M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $76K · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 28 of 29 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2017 to 2021
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 46/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 14/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.