On the Rise Inc

What it reported doing in 2025

Each year, on the rise's programs provide tangible aid and long-term, broad-based support to approximately 500 women and gender diverse individuals, as they experience and recover from homelessness.safe haven: about two-thirds of on the rise's participants are experiencing homelessness. Through comprehensive daytime direct services, the safe haven program engages and assists these participants providing emotional, practical, and professional support that helps them achieve and sustain extraordinary accomplishments-from improving health, to getting jobs, to finding housing. The ultimate goal of the safe haven program is to build long-term, trusting relationships with participants that can be the catalyst for long-lasting change and growth. Other goals of the safe haven program are to: goal 1: provide a safe space five days a week where participants can find practical necessities and a supportive community to begin to explore the steps they need to take to move out of homelessness and increase their quality of life.goal 2: provide advice, assistance, accompaniment, and advocacy for individuals addressing housing, abuse, trauma, physical/mental health, legal concerns, and other urgent needs and issues.goal 3: ease access to and transition into specialized and single-issue programs and eventually out of homelessness.on the rise relies on a collaborative network with approximately fifty other human service providers. This network helps facilitate an individual's access and success in programs such as domestic and sexual violence services, detoxification programs, emergency and transitional shelters and housing, legal and healthcare services, and more. On the rise does not duplicate other services but fills in the cracks to make the whole system work better for those who need it the most. Many of on the rise's community members cope with complex physical and mental health conditions. Program participants' struggles are often complicated by the fact that they cannot set a daily routine, have no sense of place in a family or in a community, and have little control over when and what they eat, where they can sleep, and other basic survival needs. Wellness activities improve wellbeing by providing positive care to minds and bodies in the safe haven. As well as facilitating access to emergency, primary, and preventative healthcare through referrals, support, accompaniment, and advocacy at community health centers, hospitals, and other services. These and other strengths-based group and individual activities are key components of on the rise's success.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 57.2%; rating input score 57
• Program expense ratio: 63.6%; rating input score 64
• Fundraising efficiency: $6.82 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
• 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: 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: 14.2%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.83; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 24.9%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings