Open Doors Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 113835381
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2019
- Location
- Harrisonburg, VA, USA
- Phone
- 5405783868
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Homeless Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $651,168
- Expenses
- $671,631
- Assets
- $264,999
- Liabilities
- $25,402
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DALE DOBRETH (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- NATE RIDDLE (EXECUTIVE DI): $59,661 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of open doors, inc. (the organization) is to provide safe shelter for the unhoused, as well as compassionate support and access to services for all in the harrisonburg and rockingham community. In november 2024, open doors operated a temporary shelter for 40 individuals until they later transitioned to a permanent shelter that provides overnight accommodations for 80 individuals, thanks to the public-private partnership they entered into with the city of harrisonburg in february 2024. The facility, named the navigation center, also enables open doors to operate a daytime drop-in center open to both housed and unhoused individuals in the community, providing access to essentials such as laundry facilities and showers, as well as broader resource navigation. It is home to seven operational partnerships led by open doors. Services are made possible by contributions, grants, and fundraising proceeds. In addition, volunteers provide their time, and other in-kind donations to the
What it reported doing in 2024
To provide safe shelter for the unhoused, as well as compassionate support and access to services. During this year, over 225 individuals were served.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 90% 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.
- 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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 81.4%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $15.98 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.1%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.39; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.9%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 20.3% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.9% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 84% of revenue deployed · 81.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $547K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $60K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 52/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 41/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.