OurJourney Co
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 880782634
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Rocky Mount, NC, USA
- Phone
- 8885073368
- Rating
- 56
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Inmate Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $268,885
- Expenses
- $249,533
- Assets
- $71,458
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Brian Scott (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Brian Scott (Executive Director): $39,617 total reported compensation
- Lewis Whitmire (Reentry Director): $24,527 total reported compensation
- Justin Moore (Director of Operations): $17,604 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
OurJourney Cos mission is to support people on their reentry journey. OurJourney Co believes that our communities are stronger, safer, and more complete when people returning after incarceration dont go back.
What it reported doing in 2024
Successfully created prision reentry program that help 100 former prisioners to transition into society. Program Service expenses consist of program contracted services 2690, Program IT 43,724, Shipping 4510, and other program expenses 1978.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 43
- Transparency & Controls: 89
- Accountability: 37
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 40.1%; rating input score 40
- Program expense ratio: 43.2%; rating input score 43
- Fundraising efficiency: $19.84 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 5th 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- 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: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.2%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.29; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 33.8%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 45.7% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 49.9% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 40.1% of revenue deployed · 43.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 11 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $108K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $40K · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 12 of 13 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 40/100.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 43/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.