Shepherds Way Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 812837618
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2020, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Wichita, KS, USA
- Phone
- 3168812121
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Residential Mental Health Treatment
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $813,718
- Expenses
- $771,504
- Assets
- $138,093
- Liabilities
- $5,469
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ben French (President and CEO)
- Jeff Fluhr (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Ben French (President and CEO): $18,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Shepherd's Way is a residential program committed to empowering young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, not requiring daily nursing intervention, to live independently.
What it reported doing in 2024
Shepherd's Way empowers individuals with independent living skills in four key curriculum areas are vocational, recreation/leisure, independent living home skills, and community integration.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 72% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 16
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74.1%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 78.1%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.18 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.2%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.18; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.3%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 30.8% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 35.9% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 27.3% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 74.1% of revenue deployed · 78.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 7 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $603K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $18K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 28 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 50/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 55/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.