Counselors Obediently Preventing Substance Abuse
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 264439275
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Kansas City, MO, US
- Phone
- 816-923-9212
- Rating
- 56
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Counseling, Support Groups
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $167,341
- Expenses
- $142,314
- Assets
- $35,416
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RAINY CADENHEAD (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MARK HALL (BOARD MEMBER)
- VERSHON HAYWOOD (BOARD MEMBER)
- ANGELA C WESSON (EXEUCTIVE 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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Founded in 2002 as a faith-based organization, COPS incorporates spirituality into our certified outpatient Substance Use Disorder (SUD) treatment program to help individuals achieve stable recovery and become productive members of their families and communities.
What it reported doing in 2025
July 2017 cops opened a third transitional house for men who re homeles, reentry from incarceration and/or a substance use disorder (sud). The transitional housing has three levels of housing. The men in level 3 are employed, are reengaging with their families and are stable in their recovery cops hires the house managers from within the program. Cops did thier first block party for the community. There were speakers with housing information, howto start a business, write a book and sell products. Cops has an annual thanksgiving dinner for all clients in the program and their families. Cops also became a part of the cfc campaign, a program that allows federal employees to donate perpetually. The cops program had a fishing tournament this year that enabled the clients to learn the valuable skill of fishing.
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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 44
- Transparency & Controls: 91
- Accountability: 30
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 46.7%; rating input score 47
- Program expense ratio: 55%; rating input score 55
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 6th 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.25; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -29.9% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 8 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 46.7% of revenue deployed · 55% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $78K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 19 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 47/100.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 55/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.