Arukah Institute of Healing Inc Nfp
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 814793577
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2019
- Location
- Princeton, IL, USA
- Phone
- 8158722943
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Mental Health Center
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $7,332,251
- Expenses
- $7,189,555
- Assets
- $3,237,125
- Liabilities
- $2,206,904
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PATRICIA SCHOU (INTERIM CEO)
- TOM STEVENSON (President)
- MARI STEVENSON (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- BENJAMIN SHEPERD (PHYSICIAN): $298,209 total reported compensation
- PATRICIA SCHOU (INTERIM CEO): $18,462 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Bringing accessible & relational holistic complementary health and mental health care to rural communities.
What it reported doing in 2025
Program expenses were used to provide wellness, treatment, and recovery services, including crisis services for people 24 hours per day, 365 days per year. These include: behavioral health services, psych, mobile crisis response, recovery support services, living room, and mind-body wellness for rural, Illinois. These include adults and children of all age, race, socioeconomic status, and severity of mental/substance use illness. Arukah never turns anyone away regardless of their ability to pay. Expenses were also used to regularly convene and strategize with 43 community partners from healthcare, schools, churches, industry, law enforcement, and other social services agencies on how to innovate.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 organization raises money at a relatively low cost and the filed numbers largely add up. 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: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 67
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 56.3%; rating input score 56
- Program expense ratio: 57.4%; rating input score 57
- Fundraising efficiency: $416.08 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 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: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.9%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.45; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.68; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.4%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 30% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 36.8% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 37.4% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 56.3% of revenue deployed · 57.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $298K · 7 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 34 of 35 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 56/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 57/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.