Pathfinders of Oregon

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
931137236
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Portland, OR, USA
Phone
5038925396
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Rehabilitation Services for Offenders

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$10,478,942
Expenses
$10,258,565
Assets
$5,643,727
Liabilities
$1,614,518

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

Leadership & pay

19 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • LETICIA LONGORIA-NAVARRO (Executive Dir.): $191,194 total reported compensation
  • SHERI SANDOVAL (DIR OF PROGRAMS): $136,114 total reported compensation
  • JENNIFER PINERA BECK (DIR OF FINANCE): $128,618 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

The organization provides justice system-impacted individuals and families the tools and support they need to be safe and thrive in our communities.

What it reported doing in 2024

Corrections programs the organization provides programming and support services to individuals who are incarcerated in 9 Oregon department of corrections facilities. Programs include: - free your mind core a 110-hour cognitive-behavioral skills program for men. It is intended: (1) to reduce institutional misconducts and post-release recidivism; and (2) to teach participants the skills needed to achieve greater self-control, satisfaction, and purpose in life. - moving on a 53-hour gender responsive cognitive-behavioral skill program at the coffee creek correctional facility for women. Moving on helps them identify and mobilize personal and community resources. - parenting inside out (pio), prison version a 108-hour parent education curriculum for incarcerated parents in 9 Oregon department of corrections institutions. Pio helps parents develop and refine social interactional skills and citizenship behaviors they can use in all aspects of their lives and that will help them guide their children toward becoming positive, productive adults. - parenting inside out (pio), phase ii a 29-hour enhanced visiting program for graduates of parenting inside out that includes involvement of children and caregivers that takes place at coffee creek correctional facility and columbia river correctional institution and through a remote program serving institutions on the east side of the state. The program enhances contact and connection between incarcerated parents and their children and aims to reduce the negative impact of parental incarceration. - free your mind in segregation a 56-hour cognitive-behavioral intervention program that serves men in segregation at snake river correctional institution. The program works to stabilize participants and facilitate the safe and successful return to general population. - free your mind in disciplinary segregation unit a 16-hour cognitive-behavioral intervention program that serves men in the disciplinary segregation unit at Oregon state correctional institution. The program works to stabilize participants and facilitate the safe and successful return to general population. Community corrections programs the organization provides programming and support services to adults on community supervision in jackson, marion and multnomah counties and youth in jackson county. Programs include: - marion county transitional services a program that serves individuals releasing from the transition center and jail into the community and includes the free your mind in transition, women in recovery, helping women recover, helping men recover, healing trauma and building resilience curriculums and individual support. - resiliency & recovery project jackson county a peer support program that serves justice-impacted individuals and helps them to build individual, social and community resources that promote long-term resilience and recovery, successful completion of supervision and successful reintegration into the community. Programming includes family support peer support services in addition to peer support services in four locations in the county the community justice office, transition center, the collaborative, parkside place and in the community. - resiliency & recovery project marion county a peer support program that serves justice-impacted individuals and helps them to build individual, social and community resources that promote long-term resilience and recovery, successful completion of supervision and successful reintegration into the community. Services are provided at parole and probation, the transition center and in the community. - resiliency & recovery project multnomah county a peer support program that serves justice-impacted individuals and helps them to build individual, social and community resources that promote long-term resilience and recovery, successful completion of supervision and successful reintegration into the community. The r&r project multnomah county includes engagement in the step cou

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 91% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 94% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 79
  • Transparency & Controls: 79
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 36
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 79.3%; rating input score 79
  • Program expense ratio: 80.9%; rating input score 81
  • Fundraising efficiency: $37.49 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th 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: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 2.1%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.55; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.29; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 5.7%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 12.3% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 9.9% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 17.6% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 79.3% of revenue deployed · 80.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $8.3M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $191K · 19 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

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

  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 43/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 45/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.