Home of Refuge Outreach Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 453455014
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Eden, NC, USA
- Phone
- 3367913053
- Rating
- 56
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Homeless Shelters
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $106,954
- Expenses
- $107,019
- Assets
- $392,008
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MELISSA GALLOWAY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- MELISSA GALLOWAY (EXECUTIVE 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
To provide year-round safe and secure shelter for the homeless populations in Rockingham County.
What it reported doing in 2025
Prodiving housing and essential care services to the homeless
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Investment-supported. 73% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
- 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 program spending has grown recently. 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: 31
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 33.8%; rating input score 34
- Program expense ratio: 26.7%; rating input score 27
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.1%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.66; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 25.2% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 74% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 33.8% of revenue deployed · 26.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $29K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 34/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 27/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.