Forum for Leadership and Reconciliation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 352439016
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Bothell, WA, USA
- Phone
- 4257658925
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $59,556
- Expenses
- $54,675
- Assets
- $28,476
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
People named in this filing
- MARTHA S WEISS (CHAIRPERSON)
- JUSTIN KAGIN PHD (TREASURER &)
- BOJAN RUVARAC (ROM 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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of the organization is to promote the education and development of leaders transformed by the person of jesus, committed to reconciliation, integrity, and peace-building to create caring and servicing communities.
What it reported doing in 2025
A team retreat for both renewing our minds (rom) and edi was held in january, followed by a board meeting in seattle. There was much planning for the summer events to come. Connections were made with rom community members and three conferences were attending in serbia, the netherlands, and croatia. About 50 participants gathered in croatia in august for the 2025 renewing our minds conference. Living and working in our complex and increasingly divided world was the theme. Another conference in croatia in november focused on faith, media, & politics. Organized by rom with support the european christian political movement, this conference was started in response to the current tendency of people of faith to withdraw from public life given the current atmosphere. Forum board member, kimberly hart, traveled to serbia and romania speaking from her book, restoration glass. The book focuses on navigating conflict in our polarized world. Rom director, bojan ruvarac, traveled to brussels in december to represent the group at the european prayer breakfast.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74.2%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 80.9%; rating input score 81
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.2%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.52; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.5% per year; rating input score 0; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.9% per year; rating input score 0; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.6% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 74.2% of revenue deployed · 80.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $44K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.