Project Return to Work Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 943317507
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2022
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2010
- Location
- Boulder, CO, USA
- Phone
- 7203591541
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Employment N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $149,165
- Expenses
- $312,760
- Assets
- $290,594
- Liabilities
- $84,329
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ROBIN BRAZELL (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- FERN BALLOU (CHAPLAIN): $14,929 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Helping active duty service members and veterans, especially wounded warriors, their spouses and disabled citizens back to work, back to life.
What it reported doing in 2022
Programs to provide training for disabled individuals to enter the workforce and related activities. Particular emphasis is placed on training and other services for returning disabled veterans.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 82% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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.
- 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 18
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 99.4%; rating input score 99
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -109.7%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.93; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.29; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.8%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 99.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $311K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $15K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2014 to 2022
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 35/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.