Faith Through Fire Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 833232519
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2021, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Wentzville, MO, USA
- Phone
- 3143482028
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cancer
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $300,071
- Expenses
- $284,018
- Assets
- $757,376
- Liabilities
- $8,220
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Stacey Tull (Board President)
- Jessica Anderson (Board Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Beth Wilmes (Founder): $75,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Faith Through Fire holds space for men and women to heal emotionally from the trauma of breast cancer. Their mission is to reduce the fear and anxiety breast cancer patients feel and replace it with hope and a path toward thriving. They serve as the conduit to ensuring patients receive the emotional support and networks of care needed to take survivors beyond routine physical interventions to a place of comprehensive healing.
What it reported doing in 2025
House of Hope A cancer diagnosis doesn't just affect the patient - it disrupts an entire family. Appointments, treatments, and the weight of uncertainty consume daily life, leaving little room for rest, connection, or the kind of quiet that healing requires. The House of Hope at Innsbrook Resort was created to give that space back. Located at the Innsbrook Resort in Missouri, the House of Hope offers a fully cost-free retreat experience for breast cancer patients and their families - a place to step away from the clinical world and simply breathe. Priority is given to those facing terminal diagnoses, veterans, and active participants in Faith Through Fire's peer mentorship program, ensuring the retreat reaches those carrying the heaviest loads. In 2025, Faith Through Fire provided 59 stays for patients and families at various stages of treatment and survivorship. Each stay offered more than rest - it offered restoration. Guests found space for reflection, reconnection with loved ones, and emotional healing that the routine of treatment rarely allows. The results are felt long after checkout. Participants consistently report leaving the House of Hope feeling renewed, more supported, and better equipped to face what lies ahead - not just physically, but relationally and emotionally. In a landscape where cancer care is largely measured in clinical outcomes, the House of Hope measures something equally important: the dignity, peace, and human connection that every patient deserves.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 88% 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 63
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76.4%; rating input score 76
- Program expense ratio: 80%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $59.11 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.3%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.67; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 26.4%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 29.7% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.6% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 42.3% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 76.4% of revenue deployed · 80% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $227K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $75K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 44 of 44 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 39/100.