Orion Career Works

Nonprofit profile at a glance

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.

6 people listed

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Provide training and employment opportunities to individuals who are significantly disabled or face significant barriers to employment.

Orion career works provided employment and training to individuals in 2020 with significant disabilities.

Revenue model: No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
Distribution model: Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
Foreign activity oversight: Limited
Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Limited
Related-party transparency: Limited

Independent voting board: Limited
Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Operating margin: Limited
Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
Officer compensation ratio: 59.2%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Program expense growth: -15.1% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: 12.2% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings

Where the money goes: 100% of spending went to programs
Governance: 5 of 8 filing controls reported
Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $247K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $487K · 6 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
Consistency: 13 of 14 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
Filing history: 5 filing years from 2016 to 2020
Contacts: How to reach this organization
Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
Related organizations: 2 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.

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Independent members within voting members did not reconcile in the filed values.