Center for Courage & Renewal

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
331023228
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Greenville, SC, USA
Phone
2064662055
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Adult, Continuing Education

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,204,383
Expenses
$1,592,487
Assets
$2,623,043
Liabilities
$163,790

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • KATHRYN MCELVEEN (EXECTIVE DIRECTOR): $142,403 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The center for courage & renewal exists to nurture deep integrity and relational trust, building the foundation for a more loving, equitable, and healthy world. Through circle of trust retreats and other programs rooted in the courage & renewal approach we nurture supportive communities of reflection and practice to help people come alive with a renewed sense of purpose, build trustworthy relationships, and cultivate the courage to rise to today's challenges, making a difference within themselves and their communities.

What it reported doing in 2024

Ccr's sector programs provide communities of reflection and practice for leaders in a variety of fields including: education, non-profits, business, healthcare, human services and religion. This supports their efforts to work within their own communities and professions from a place of greater integrity in ways that are life-giving and renewing for themselves, and the people they serve. In fy2024/25, we continued flourishing in ministry programs with a focus on serving black, indigenous, people of color spiritual leaders and activists (about 10 for each retreat) and including a pilot for korean-speaking ministry leaders (12 from both the USA and south korea). We also continued our souls on deck cohort experience with 32 ccr facilitators from across the USA and europe. Our healing the heart of higher education conference hosted over 200 attendees. In this fiscal year, members of our facilitator collaboration offered 122 programs and retreats including sector-based experiences like courage to teach, as well as courage to lead cross-professional experiences reaching over 1,464 participants in countries around the world.

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.

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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 57
  • Transparency & Controls: 87
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 67
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 53.2%; rating input score 53
  • Program expense ratio: 69.9%; rating input score 70
  • Fundraising efficiency: $9.06 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 20th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • 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: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 27.8%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.65; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 8.9%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -7.6% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -5.5% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -0.9% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 53.2% of revenue deployed · 69.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $142K · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 27 of 28 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 53/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 34/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 33/100.