The Warrior's Journey
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 863074843
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Springfield, MO, USA
- Phone
- 4175674800
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,739,188
- Expenses
- $1,435,724
- Assets
- $1,523,160
- Liabilities
- $927,289
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KEVIN WEAVER (PRESIDENT AND CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- KEVIN WEAVER (PRESIDENT AND CEO): $95,663 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Healing Invisible Wounds. The Warrior’s Journey has been developing innovative new ways to connect warriors in crisis with the help and resources they need. Too often, warriors are left to face the challenges of their military experience on their own. Isolation is the challenge that can turn a difficult situation into a crisis, and it’s isolation that too often costs warriors their lives. A moment of crisis is not always on the battlefield. The stress of reintegration, the long-term effects of survivor guilt, and feelings of isolation, loss, and moral injury can surface at any time. TWJ provides 24-hour-a-day access to a connector, no matter the severity of the crisis. Our warriors deserve more than a hotline or governmental form. Through the healing process, they deserve another warrior with the experience and wisdom to be their personal advoca.
What it reported doing in 2024
The warrior's journey provides warrior-to-warrior intervention and preventative resources to care for the invisible wounds of the military, which is the key to real strength and resilience.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 72
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.2%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 87.2%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $16.63 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 85.8%; rating input score 86; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 21st 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: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17.4%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.06; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.61; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.7%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 44.3% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 37% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 51.7% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 73.2% of revenue deployed · 87.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 8 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $96K · 8 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $289K reported
- Consistency: 33 of 34 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 53/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 48/100.