Friends of the Redeemer United
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 261578216
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2011
- Location
- Gulfport, MS, USA
- Phone
- 2286977257
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Relief
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $199,119
- Expenses
- $147,728
- Assets
- $134,046
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Dr Ammie Brooke Riley DPT (CEO)
- Michelle Wieger PT (President and Trustee)
- Dr Karen Sawyer DPT (Vice President and Trustee)
People named in this filing
- Dr Ammie Brooke Riley DPT (CEO)
- Michelle Wieger PT (President and Trustee)
- Dr Karen Sawyer DPT (Vice President and Trustee)
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 organization's primary exempt purpose is to encourage the healing process through involvement in spiritual, social, educational and health-related services in rural jamaica.
What it reported doing in 2025
Medical Physical Therapy Clinic: FORU supports ongoing physical therapy services provided by Dr. Brooke Riley, PT, DPT, and other visiting physical therapists in rural Jamaica. In July 2025, Dr. Derek Landis, PT, DPT, and Dr. Stephanie Landis, PT, DPT, joined Dr. Riley to help provide care for orthopedic and neurological diagnoses. In 2025, the FOR U staff completed 499 patient visits at the FOR U Rehabilitation Clinic. FOR U also completed 7 home visits throughout the parish of St. Elizabeth. Home visits allow us to better meet the needs of our patients by improving their functional mobility in the home and working on activities that are important to each patient/family. Home visits also allow for spiritual and emotional support for many families who are having difficulty coping with the multifaceted stresses that life-changing illness brings. FOR U conducted one intensive neurologic rehabilitation camp in 2025 and continued using our existing model, which consisted of five to seven full days of intensive neurologic rehabilitation where patients worked to improve their gait, balance, and arm/hand function. This model also allows for home modifications, community reintegration, and spiritual encouragement/support to best meet the needs of the people we serve. Pre/post testing was performed on the first and last days of the camp to measure overall functional change and the success of the camp. This program serves to further FOR U's exempt purposes by supporting charitable medical services to underserved populations. Our objective of improving the quality of life for the people we serve was met by improving functional mobility, providing spiritual/emotional support, modifying the home environment for easier access, and helping those we serve return to the activities they enjoy.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 94% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 87% 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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.6%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 96.4%; rating input score 96
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 25.8%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.91; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.6%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.2% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 71.6% of revenue deployed · 96.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $142K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.