Opportunities Unlimited Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
820310587
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Lewiston, ID, USA
Phone
2087431563
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Sheltered Employment

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$4,752,603
Expenses
$4,730,969
Assets
$2,826,694
Liabilities
$938,194

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

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • HANNAH LIEDKE (President)

People named in this filing

  • LORETTA STOWERS (Secretary)
  • DAVID GITTINS (Director)
  • JOHN KIRSCHMAN (Director)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

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

Overview

Mission

A nonprofit organized for the purpose of providing evaluation, training, employment, education, placement and support services to individuals with emotional, physical and developmental disabilities, including people with severe disabilities and people who are disadvantaged. These services are provided to increase their level of independent functioning, vocational skills and earned income in order to decrease their reliance upon public and private support.

What it reported doing in 2024

Community Living Services-Population served-149 0UI is a non-profit Developmental Disability Agency. Currently we provide a multitude of services to adults and children with developmental disabilities. They learn the skills and knowledge to function independently in their communities. Our Community Living Services (CLS) professionals assist in developing, teaching, and maintaining life skills with each participant. This improves their quality of life, enhances their self-esteem, develops positive social behaviors, and promotes appropriate community integration. We provide services for both Children and Adults. For children we provide, Community Based Service (CBS) & Behavior Intervention (BI). Behavior intervention is a professional position requiring 1040 hours of experience and specific education to receive state certification. BI services can be in the school, in the home, or community. The focus of BI staff is to teach coping skills and decreasing unwanted behaviors. CBS is a service that focuses on allowing children to incorporate into their communities; service cannot be provided in the home. CBS also focuses on maintaining the skills learned during BI services. The Adult program provides Group, Residential Habilitation (Res. Hab.), High Support and Intense 24-hour services. The Adult participant with assistance of their team decide what needs and wants should be addressed for the plan year. A Developmental Specialist (OS) then writes a specific plan from the goals chosen at the meeting. Res. Hab. is a service that focuses specifically on goals that directly relate to the adult participants independence, safety, and general well-being. Res. Hab. is a one participant to one staff service. Res. Hab. can be provided in the home and community; wherever the goal can successfully be run. Group based therapy works on specific goals for participants in a group setting. These goals can be worked on in our Developmental Disability Centers or in the community. Our groups take the approach of adult educations. Each group is focused or based on a topic such as relationships, communication, or current events. Participants that qualify for 24 services, because a participant is unable to take care of themselves without the support of others and/or their behaviors are so great that they need 24-hour supervision for their safety and the safety of others. Intense High Support participants qualify for, because of their Intense needs and behavior. Intense 24 participants always require one participant to one staff.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 89% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 79
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 76
  • Sustainability: 37
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 87.8%; rating input score 88
  • Program expense ratio: 89.1%; rating input score 89
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

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: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
    • Audit committee oversight: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 0.5%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.6; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.33; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 87.8% of revenue deployed · 89.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $4.2M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.