Yellowstone Womens First Step House Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 330802499
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Costa Mesa, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8889419048
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Housing, Shelter N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,762,205
- Expenses
- $1,900,010
- Assets
- $508,888
- Liabilities
- $2,000
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Dr Anna M Thames (CEO and Board Member)
- Joan M Franco (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Dr Anna M Thames (CEO and Board Member)
- Jason Brewer (Secretary)
- Casey Hunter (Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Established in 1997, Yellowstone Recovery was founded to provide a place and a plan for indigent men and women who suffer from the diseases of alcoholism and/or drug addiction. Our primary purpose is to help men and women achieve sobriety.
What it reported doing in 2024
Residential recovery program and operation of sober living residences, along with an outpatient program providing aftercare for clients who have completed residential treatment. In 2022, we provided services to 247 clients, with 10 receiving full scholarships. Of this total, 205 men received services, with 2 men receiving full scholarships, and 4261 women received services, with 8 women receiving full scholarships. Residential recovery program and operation of sober living residences along with an outpatient program providing aftercare for clients who have completed residential treatment. In 2022, we provided services to 247 clients, with 10 receiving full scholarships. Of this total, 205 men received services, with 2 men receiving full scholarships, and 4261 women received services, with 8 women receiving full scholarships.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 80% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.4%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 84.8%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: -7.8%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.27; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.3% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -6.5% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 91.4% of revenue deployed · 84.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 12 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 30 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.