The Grief Center
Legal name: Grief Resource Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 475066277
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2019
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2019, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Albuquerque, NM, US
- Phone
- 505-323-0478
- Rating
- 56
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Libraries
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $79,166
- Expenses
- $73,878
- Assets
- $77,621
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2019. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SHAWN O'CONNELL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- LINDA PHELPS PHD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR -RETIRED 5/11/19)
People named in this filing
- TRISH HOFFMAN (DIRECTOR)
- LADONNA HOPKINS (DIRECTOR)
- SHANNON JACQUES (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 2019. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Grief Center provides support groups, workshops and resources for children, teens, and adults who have experienced the death of an important person.
What it reported doing in 2019
Five monthly groups with an average attendance of 50 persons per month.educational programs and workshops for the community 547 persons served.speaking engagements in the community had 334 in attendance.2019 spirituality and health conference attended by 138 licensed professionals.inquiries for information was 212.short term grief counseling support for 244 individuals.new services in 2019 include: the grc began a healing through art project with the office of the medical investigator. This project supplies opportunities for clients to experience therapeutic benefits through artistic expression.the grc began to deliver individual grief counseling support remotely to serve clients of the office of the medical investigator. A partnership was established with denton wood funeral home, in carlsbad, which allowed omi clients to come to their facility and use secured telecommunication to see a counselor in albuquerque at the grc. This was set up at the request of omi to help get services to under served population. The grc started an open access model to allow persons to see a grief therapist without an appointment.a book club was added to our groups this year.the grc added an omi tab to our website to help the community gain insight to their services and access grief resource materials.the grc had the website translated into spanish which allows visitors to the page to toggle between english and spanish.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 64% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 25
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 24.7%; rating input score 25
- Program expense ratio: 26.5%; rating input score 26
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.7%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.05; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -113.2% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -28.2% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 24.7% of revenue deployed · 26.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $20K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2018 to 2019
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 25/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 26/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.