Portland Activities & Athletics Lea

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
861295671
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Portland, OR, USA
Phone
2064071566
Rating
88
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Educational Services and Schools - Other

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$55,986
Expenses
$188,883
Assets
$13,697

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JAY WILLIAMS (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • JAY WILLIAMS (PRESIDENT)
  • ERIK SELDEN (TREASURER)
  • CYNTHIA JOHNSON (SECRETARY)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Portland activities & athletics league (paal) builds partnerships among youth, the law enforcement community, service professionals, and the community at large. Paal fosters an environment of safety, trust and belonging as we inspire youth to achieve greatness through mentoring, athletics, academic and leadership programs.

What it reported doing in 2025

Camps (summer, seasonal, sports) paal camps provide positive mentorship and supervision during high risk summer months. Paal camp is an off-site sports and enrichment program offered to youth ages 8-14 years of age living in the portland metropolitan area. The weeklong camps are sports specific, and all coaches/counselors at camp are off-duty law enforcement and service professionals.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% 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

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: 92
  • Transparency & Controls: 91
  • Sustainability: 5
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 80%; rating input score 80

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -237.4%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.07; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 54.4%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 36% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 15.5% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 80% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $151K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.