Summer Journeys
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 364721619
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2016
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2016
- Location
- Grand Rapids, MI, USA
- Phone
- 6164602355
- Rating
- 52
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $116,497
- Expenses
- $106,231
- Assets
- $48,972
- Liabilities
- $12,277
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2016. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOE NAPOLITAN (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- DAVID BUTH (Director)
- VANESSA CHAVARRIAGIA (Treasurer)
- SKY CURRIE (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 2016. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To help students acquire knowledge, skills, and confidence to appreciate and act ethically in the places they visit and call home. Through adventure
What it reported doing in 2016
Educational trips for 46 middle school & high school students.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 81% 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.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 32
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 31.2%; rating input score 31
- Program expense ratio: 34.3%; rating input score 34
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.8%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.46; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.25; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 28.2%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -32.9% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -11.7% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.4% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 31.2% of revenue deployed · 34.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $36K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2012 to 2016
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 31/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 34/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.