Arrabon Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 843273831
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2019
- Location
- Richmond, VA, USA
- Phone
- 8044802665
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religious Media, Communications
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,130,081
- Expenses
- $1,302,766
- Assets
- $829,274
- Liabilities
- $8,245
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- David Bailey (Founder and Chief Executive)
Highest reported compensation
- David Bailey (Founder and Chief Executive): $137,108 total reported compensation
- Beth Cossin (Chief Strategy Officer): $104,100 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Arrabon is a spiritual formation ministry that equips Christ-followers to actively and creatively pursue healing and reconciliation in their communities.
What it reported doing in 2024
Arrabon is a religious, charitable, and educational organization that exists to equip Christian Leaders and their communities to effectively engage in reconciliation through training.The word "Arrabon" means a "foretaste of what is to come". Arrabon believes the Church should be a foretaste of a reconciled heaven for a divided world. Through Arrabon's primary activities of training and curriculum development, it seeks to educate and train the Church on racial reconciliation and hope for local communities.Arrabon's main sources of revenue are contributions and fees for services. Within fees for services, Arrabon facilitates various study series for small groups and trainings to help organizational leaders, staff, and key volunteers learn how to form their institutions for reconciliation.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 76% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 92
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.2%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 69.1%; rating input score 69
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.31 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 20th 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: -15.3%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.64; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 18.5%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 18% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.1% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22.3% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.2% of revenue deployed · 69.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 7 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $900K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $137K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.