Squires Empowering Young Dads
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 933907585
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Portland, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5034210933
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development – Religious Leadership
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $91,939
- Expenses
- $81,762
- Assets
- $23,261
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DEAN CRAMER (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- SHANNE SOWARDS (EXECUTIVE DI)
- DEAN CRAMER (PRESIDENT)
- ELIZABETH SOWARDS (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Squires empowering young dads is an organization created to address the needs of young fathers. Navigating fatherhood at any age is a callenge, when you add adolescence, it only compounds the situation. Understanding the complexities of being a young father, squires empowering young dads provides the education and support a young dad needs as he navigates fatherhood and discovers what it means to be a parent. The mission of squires empowering dads is to empower young fathers with the knowledge and support to provide emotional and physical care for their children. The organization deliberately offers support to 14-to-25-year-old fathers, as it recognizes the complex and difficult circumstances men face when becoming parents at a young age. By offering education, coping mechanisms, and support to these young men they can overcome the numerous obstacles they will face.
What it reported doing in 2024
Squires provides year-round programs that equip adolescent and young fathers (ages 25 and under) in the portland metro area with education, mentoring, and resources that strengthen parenting skills, family stability, and personal development. Our annual young father workshop offers participants training on fatherhood, financial support, brain development, and community resources, including meals, childcare, and gift cards. We also host the greater portland young parent fair, connecting young parents with 2530 community partners through a resource fair, raffle incentives, and networking opportunities. Squires awards honor cords to pregnant and parenting youth who earn their ged or high-school diploma, recognizing educational achievement.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 70% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 66.9%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 75.3%; rating input score 75
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.1%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.28; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 67.5%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 66.9% of revenue deployed · 75.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $62K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.