Courageous Healing Inc.
Legal name: Courageous Healing Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 833333360
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2021, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Fort Wayne, IN, US
- Phone
- 260-255-3514
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Mental Health Center
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,003,149
- Expenses
- $872,121
- Assets
- $904,981
- Liabilities
- $28,320
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JANELL M LANE (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JANELL M LANE (PRESIDENT): $108,583 total reported compensation
- AARON J LANE (VICE-PRESIDE): $104,781 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Courageous Healing’s mission is to deliver culturally centered, trauma-informed, accessible mental health care in an authentic and safe environment.
What it reported doing in 2024
Courageous healing provided approximately 2898 hours of individual and group counseling services in 2024. This included serving approximately 438 clients with individual counseling and many more with group therapy sessions. The organization additionally provided several hours of psychoeducation through speaking and events. Although they serve clients from all over the city of fort wayne, more than half of the organization's clientele live in southeast fort wayne, which is the area of the city with the highest concentration of barriers (i.e. Food insecurity, housing insecurity, lower employment rates and opportunities, lower socio-economic status, lack of economic development, etc.). Courageous healing was able to close the gaps in access to culturally centered mental health services and supports within the city of fort wayne.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 74% 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 a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 60.3%; rating input score 60
- Program expense ratio: 69.4%; rating input score 69
- Fundraising efficiency: $11.43 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 42; 42nd 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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 71.4%; rating input score 71; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13.1%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.04; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 24.5%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 46.9% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 16.4% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 60.3% of revenue deployed · 69.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 7 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $605K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $109K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 42/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 58/100.