Partners in Adventure Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 300209776
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2021
- Location
- Essex, VT, USA
- Phone
- 8028575180
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Camps
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $228,391
- Expenses
- $184,496
- Assets
- $385,051
- Liabilities
- $2,231
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Joan Martin (Executive Director)
- Joshua Jarvis (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Joan Martin (Executive Director): $32,752 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To serve the needs of physically and intellectually disabled people in community-based environments that are accessible and inclusive based on the principle that regardless of our physical and mental attributes we all have the ability to learn, to give and to grow. Partners in Adventure (PIA) provides unique experiences to young people with and without disabilities that help them build personal partnerships while safely exploring, lending a helping hand and learning more about the world and one another. PIA accomplishes this by providing fully accessible, adaptive, inclusive and totally non-competitive year-round programming and partnering for teens and young adults with a full range of physical and developmental abilities.
What it reported doing in 2024
Number of teens and adults served = 458, number of scholarships given = 14, number of towns served = 23, number of different disabilities served = 35.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 63% 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 59
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 62%; rating input score 62
- Program expense ratio: 74.2%; rating input score 74
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 19.2%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.09; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 17.8%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.8% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 62% of revenue deployed · 74.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $137K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $33K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 49/100.