Communities for Recovery
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 200620714
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Austin, TX, USA
- Phone
- 5127587686
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alcohol, Drug and Substance Abuse, Dependency Prevention and Treatment
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,417,485
- Expenses
- $3,515,299
- Assets
- $1,155,498
- Liabilities
- $157,521
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Darrin Acker (Executive Director)
- Tommy Castille (President/Chair)
Highest reported compensation
- Darrin Acker (Executive Director): $103,254 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Communities for Recovery supports long-term recovery for people with substance use and co-occurring mental health issues by partnering with other organizations in the community to provide peer-supported recovery services.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, Communities for Recovery expanded access to recovery support, workforce development, and overdose prevention services across Central Texas. Peer Support Specialists provided more than 7,000 hours of peer recovery support to 817 unique participants through one-on-one coaching, recovery planning, outreach, and ongoing engagement. Staff-led support groups served 4,893 attendees, creating opportunities for connection, wellness, and long-term recovery. Our community center welcomed 6,820 visits, including 203 individuals accessing services for the first time. Through the Peer Leadership Academy, we trained aspiring Recovery Support Peer Specialists and Mental Health Peer Specialists, strengthening the peer workforce and increasing pathways to meaningful employment. Communities for Recovery also distributed 18,436 units of naloxone, provided overdose prevention education to thousands of community members, partnered with 154 organizations, and participated in 45 outreach events, helping build a stronger, safer, and more recovery-oriented community.
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.4%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 83.9%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $161.21 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 91; 91st 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- 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: -2.9%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.33; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.9%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.8% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.3% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.9% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.4% of revenue deployed · 83.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $103K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.