Kinward

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
204996343
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2018
Location
Greensboro, NC, USA
Phone
3364300927
Rating
70
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Christianity
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$814,606
Expenses
$630,146
Assets
$1,129,062
Liabilities
$8,958

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ELIZABETH MCCAIN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • ELIZABETH MCCAIN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $122,577 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Kinward offers classes, workshops, and recorded meditations to help uncover the sacred and practice radical care for ourselves, each another, and the world through in-person and virtual offerings.

What it reported doing in 2025

At kinward we offer classes, workshops, and recorded spiritual practices on patreon that invite you to pause, reflect, and unearth your inner wisdom. Through in-person and virtual spiritual programs, we help you uncover the sacred and practice radical care for ourselves, one another, and the world. Cultivating a more loving world. We, together, hold these truths as we approach our work: that we are not alone but part of a divine and interconnected mystery; we are called to be present in the world as practiced by jesus of nazareth; that the kind of presence jesus modeled requires engaging in spiritual practice and uncovering a wisdom deep within each one of us; that in creating space for this three-centered and deeper knowing, we will be changed: -while this change will not always make life easy, it will improve our days in scientifically observable ways. -while this change will not always provide clarity in direction, it will open doors and bring back vibrancy to possibilities. -while this change will never make us perfect; it will enable more moments where we are the selves we have been longing to be. -while this change will not immediately solve the world's problems, it will make the healing of this world more hopeful and more possible.we believe that you are invited to participate in this change, that there is no one like you, and that the world needs who you are exactly how you are.feels like a place where people from many different spiritual traditions can come together, welcoming folks from various perspectives. Spiritual hunger at our base. (wisdom tradition predates jesus)

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 95% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 57
  • Transparency & Controls: 78
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 63
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 49.2%; rating input score 49
  • Program expense ratio: 63.6%; rating input score 64
  • Fundraising efficiency: $47.23 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 77.2%; rating input score 77; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • 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: 22.6%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.79; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 19.5%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -8.9% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 33.4% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 49.2% of revenue deployed · 63.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $401K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $123K · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 28 of 30 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 49/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.