Project Access Now
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 208928388
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Portland, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5033456553
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Health, General and Financing
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $20,806,184
- Expenses
- $20,970,997
- Assets
- $6,631,632
- Liabilities
- $2,439,518
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
26 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CARLYN RONICK (PAST PRES/CEO)
- TRACY CARVER (PRESIDENT/CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- CARLYN RONICK (PAST PRES/CEO): $148,441 total reported compensation
- OMAR AL RAIS (VP OPERATIONS): $135,509 total reported compensation
- GREG SUTLIFF (PAST VP FINANCE): $127,797 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 mission of project access now is to improve the health and well-being of our communities by ensuring access to care, services, and resources for those most in need.
What it reported doing in 2024
Community assistance - low-income and other vulnerable populations in our community often face extraordinary barriers to accessing resources that sustain health. Thecommunity assistance program (cap) connects individuals in need of resources that help them successfully transition from a hospital or emergency room back into the community following a major medical intervention. Additionally, the team works closely with coordinated care organizations (ccos) to support medicaid members in accessing health-related, non-medical resources available to them.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 84% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 95% 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: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.3%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 94.6%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: $98.87 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- 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: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.8%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.32; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.37; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 19.3% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.7% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.6% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 95.3% of revenue deployed · 94.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 19 of 19 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $19.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $148K · 26 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.1M reported
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 40/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.