Christian Recovery Houses

Legal name: Christian Recovery Houses Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
208854938
IRS 990 coverage
2017–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2016
Location
Wilmington, NC, United States
Phone
(910) 386-1355
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Alcohol, Drug and Substance Abuse, Dependency Prevention and Treatment
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$388,191
Expenses
$313,275
Assets
$509,378
Liabilities
$205,063

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

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CLAUDE E BLANKENSHIP JR CPA (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • MARK ALLEN (DIRECTOR)
  • CHARLES BAKER (DIRECTOR)
  • DERMOT GIBNEY (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

Christian Recovery Houses (CRH) provides a structured, Christ-centered recovery home environment to support individuals recovering from addiction and other substantial harms, with Christian education and support aimed at helping residents grow in faith and sobriety. Offering three men's and two ladies' halfway house in Wilmington, NC, we work to provide anyone that we can be of service to the opportunity to become a resident of CRH. 1. Step one is a 30 minute Intake Assessment over the phone to allow us to make sure we are a good fit for you. 2. If accepted into the program, you will meet with a house manager and personally be walked through expectations and commitments prior to becoming a part of the program. If you are searching for a life filled with joy, recovery, and Jesus, we are the place for you.

What it reported doing in 2024

Provided five christian recovery houses to the community and aided in the rehabilitation of hundreds of individuals recovering from addiction, alcoholism, abuse and other substantial hurts by providing a structured christian home environment, meals, housing, the crh recovery program, and community engagement all within the framework of a 12-step christ based program.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 65% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 78
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 58
  • Sustainability: 60
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 80.7%; rating input score 81
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 77.8%; rating input score 78; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 19.3%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.63; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.4; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 10.3% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 17% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
  • Where the money goes: 80.7% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 9 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $313K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2017 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.