Arborspring Retreat House
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 260853927
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2019, Form 990-N 2010
- Location
- Arcadia, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6263799017
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $183,445
- Expenses
- $182,452
- Assets
- $325,226
- Liabilities
- $42
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Arlene R Inouye (President & Chair)
Highest reported compensation
- Arlene R Inouye (President & Chair): $83,917 total reported compensation
- Barbara A Choy (VP & Corporate Secretary): $66,379 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
ArborSpring Retreat House exists to partner with Jesus Christ and His faith community to bring spiritual and emotional healing to people, and equip them to deepen their relationship with God and serve His purposes in the world.
What it reported doing in 2025
To see disciples of Jesus Christ firmly rooted in Him, His love and His Word, living out their calling more faithfully and fruitfully in kingdom life, ministry and mission, to the glory of God and the good of others, all within the context of a retreat house dedicated to providing ministries (e.g. teaching, workshops, healing prayer, spiritual direction) and relationships (communities of hospitality and hope) that lead to the fulfillment of this vision.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 89% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 92% 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 most voting board members are independent. 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: 51
- Transparency & Controls: 80
- Accountability: 77
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 57.5%; rating input score 58
- Program expense ratio: 55.5%; rating input score 55
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 84.6%; rating input score 85; 3rd 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 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.5%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.78; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 82.4%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.9% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.3% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 57.5% of revenue deployed · 55.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $101K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $84K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 22 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 58/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 55/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 53/100.