Higher Ground & Womens Recovery Residence
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 384320758
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-PF 2024
- Location
- Pennington Gap, VA, USA
- Phone
- 2762194819
- Rating
- 51
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Group Homes
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $569,588
- Expenses
- $106,256
- Assets
- $765,895
- Liabilities
- $978
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
People named in this filing
- Charlene Cantrell (Board Member)
- Barbara Kingsolver (Board Member)
- Steven Hopp (Board Member)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to provide a supportive and nurturing environment for women in recovery from substance use disorder as they rebuild their lives, cultivate healthy habits, and thrive in sobriety. Through personalized care plans, life skills training, and strengthened community connections, we strive to empower these women to reclaim their lives and b
What it reported doing in 2025
Higher Ground Womens Recovery Residence provided safe, stable, recovery-focused housing for women recovering from substance use disorder in rural Southwest Virginia. The organization maintained a structured sober living environment emphasizing accountability, peer support, recovery engagement, and independent living skills. Residents were assisted with access to healthcare, counseling, medication-assisted recovery services, transportation, court compliance, and community based recovery resources. Services were designed to reduce homelessness, support long-term sobriety, and strengthen family and community reintegration.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% 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 and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 33
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 30
- Sustainability: 89
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 14.2%; rating input score 14
- Program expense ratio: 75.5%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: 0%; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 81.3%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.21; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 14.2% of revenue deployed · 75.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 10 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $80K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 14/100.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.