Positive Tracks Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
455086315
IRS 990 coverage
2015–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Hanover, NH, USA
Phone
6036091845
Rating
61
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Public Foundations

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,486,639
Expenses
$1,320,565
Assets
$2,806,847
Liabilities
$94,963

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

Leadership & pay

20 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JANE MEYER (CEO/FOUNDER)
  • JULIE THOM (PRESIDENT)
  • GIOIA PERUGINI (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • NIBAL AWAD (VICE PRESIDENT OF STRATEGI)
  • EMILY GARDNER (VICE PRESIDENT OF COMMUNIC)
  • ELIZABETH GRAY (VICE PRESIDENT OF INNOVATI)

Highest reported compensation

  • NIBAL AWAD (VICE PRESIDENT OF STRATEGI): $183,144 total reported compensation
  • EMILY GARDNER (VICE PRESIDENT OF COMMUNIC): $137,748 total reported compensation
  • ELIZABETH GRAY (VICE PRESIDENT OF INNOVATI): $127,346 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Positive tracks equips ages 12-25 with the skills and resources to build and lead their own athletic challenges to champion causes they care about most, so young people can change the world.

What it reported doing in 2025

We believe in the power and potential of young people to solve our biggest social challenges. We also believe that sustainable change and personal transformation happens when young people feel their voices matter when they are active in the process of making change, when they are invested in the outcome, and when they are enjoying the effort. The power of sport, play and physical activity provides a compelling platform and playing field where youth can gather, educate and mobilize community while learning personal leadership skills and values that shape who they are.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 93% 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 - Most voting board members are independent and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 42
  • Transparency & Controls: 59
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 68
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 33.2%; rating input score 33
  • Program expense ratio: 61.2%; rating input score 61
  • Fundraising efficiency: $7.46 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 26.1%; rating input score 26; 17th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 46.9%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.13; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 33.9%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -2.5% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 18% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 33.2% of revenue deployed · 61.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $808K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $183K · 20 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 34 of 35 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
  • 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 33/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 26/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 26/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.