We Belong Pdx
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 853388090
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Portland, OR, USA
- Phone
- 9714016667
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $351,550
- Expenses
- $305,794
- Assets
- $149,791
- Liabilities
- $3,736
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SARAH LOPEZ-MADRIGAL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- TAYLOR WELLS (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- SARAH LOPEZ-MADRIGAL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $62,400 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Webelongpdx is dedicated to supporting children's mental health through proactive and comprehensive year-round out-of-school investment. We run programs that operate 42 weeks a year, offering enriching activities twice a week to children aged 5-14. Youth qualify for our program through recommendations by the local school counselor and/or demonstrating a need for additional social and emotional support. Our initiatives are rooted in four fundamental pillars: trusted relationships, nutrition, adventure, and screen-free creativity. Most of the children we serve come from bipoc backgrounds, with all participants eligible for Oregon expanded income guidelines. Through engaging and holistic programming, we aim to provide children with valuable life skills and tools to enhance their emotional well-being, ultimately providing them with a strong sense of belonging and value, ensuring that as they develop, they thrive.
What it reported doing in 2025
The youth engagement program invests in youth ages 5-14 during out-of-school hours, year round. We provided 63 youth with peer connection, mentorship and activities related to nutrition, screen-free creativity and adventure. Additionally, youth were given 53 new experiences at parks, restaurants, museums, amusement parks and more. Our staff set growth goals with each youth and provide individual check-ins to communicate seen growth or next steps.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 68% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.8%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 80.2%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.53 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 13%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.49; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 20.4%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 51.2% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 38.8% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 28.6% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 69.8% of revenue deployed · 80.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $245K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $62K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.