Our Own Pace

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
884162145
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Newman, CA, USA
Phone
2096200006
Rating
91
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Voluntary Health Associations & Medical Disciplines N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$85,647
Expenses
$97,247
Assets
$39,357
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • KATHLEEN LIGHTSEY (PRESIDENT, DIRECTOR)

People named in this filing

  • KATHLEEN LIGHTSEY (PRESIDENT, DIRECTOR)
  • KENNETH LIGHTSEY (VP, DIRECTOR)
  • JOSHUA GILBERT (TREASURER, SECRETARY, DIRE)

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

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

Overview

Mission

Support for disabled individuals

What it reported doing in 2024

The nonprofit is improving the lives of individuals who are developmentally disabled by providing support and assistance through personal and professional development by offering job skills, life skills, proper communication, socialization skills, and self employment projects. The nonprofit is providing activities to disabled individuals such as gardening, cooking, taking care of animals and tools for managing emotions. The nonprofit is helping to secure safe and suitable housing for individuals with these disabilities so that they can enjoy independence as well as provide the life and job skills that they need to be able to live without supervision. During the year, the nonprofit also participated in a California-funded initiative, the self determination program, which is designed to empower individuals to learn skills and gain independence.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 72% 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 98
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 35
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 95%; rating input score 95

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -13.5%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.4; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -40% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -66.7% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -50.1% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 95% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $92K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.