The 4Th Dimension Recovery Center

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
462702985
IRS 990 coverage
2019–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2014
Location
Portland, OR, USA
Phone
9717034623
Rating
82
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Alcohol, Drug Abuse, Treatment Only

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$14,328,329
Expenses
$10,612,872
Assets
$15,121,492
Liabilities
$10,089,072

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MARV SEPPALA (PRESIDENT)
  • STANLY ROKAW (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • TONY VEZINA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • TONY VEZINA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $187,282 total reported compensation
  • MACRAE BOGDANOV (FINANCE DIRECTOR): $135,721 total reported compensation
  • CODY ROBERTS (DEPUTY DIRECTOR): $129,716 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 organization envisions a future where systems, communities, and individuals work together ensuring all people receive the support needed to find and sustain recovery from substances.

What it reported doing in 2024

Peer mentorship: mentors offer a unique perspective with lived experience, they are able to help others on their recovery journey through skills and resources they learned along the way.meetings & events: the organization offers a variety of meetings and events for young adults in recovery including 12-step, dharma, yoga, mutual aid, and social recovery events.housing: housing is essential to stability in recovery, as the organization invests more resources into housing, we are excited to offer this to even more people in the community.family services: research shows that adolescents are more likely to achieve success and maintain abstinence when they have active family involvement. That's why we host biweekly family support groups.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 90% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
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

STRONG - 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 some filed totals do not add up.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 73
  • Transparency & Controls: 83
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 64
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 63.8%; rating input score 64
  • Program expense ratio: 86.1%; rating input score 86
  • Fundraising efficiency: $48.32 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Pass
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • 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: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • 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: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 25.9%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.42; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.67; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 4.3%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 39.4% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 40.7% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 49.9% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 63.8% of revenue deployed · 86.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $9.1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $187K · 10 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $389K reported
  • Consistency: 30 of 31 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 57/100.