Mercy Me Sober Living

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
881965667
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Beaufort, SC, USA
Phone
8432126002
Rating
43
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$70,148
Expenses
$68,966
Assets
$40,325
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • LISA MARIE HINSKI (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • LISA MARIE HINSKI (PRESIDENT)
  • WILLIAM PAYNE (SECRETARY / TREASURER)
  • GARY HARRELL (PROGRAM 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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Mercy me sober living is dedicated to offering a secure, sober, and structured living space tailored for individuals on the path to recovery from alcohol, drug, or substance abuse issues.

What it reported doing in 2024

Mercy me sober living (mmsl) men's house continued to provide a safe living space that supports increasing our residents "recovery capital" throughout 2024. Mmsl does this by providing a consistent program of recovery support, living guidelines and sobriety rules. All support, guidelines and rules are rooted in the principles of 12 step recovery and the guidelines provided by the South Carolina association of recovery residences (scarr). Mmsl residents are required to: have a sponsor, work a recovery program (documented thru logs), attend at least 5 meetings a week including the mandatory upon awakening meeting held at the house each day and the once per week house meeting held on wednesday nights. Additionally residents must have full time employment unless they are legally disabled. All residents must participate in at least 8 hours of community service work each month. Consistent with other scarr requirements, the men also participate in the operation, cleaning and maintenance of the house. Mmsl is grateful to several local food banks. Through our participation in their programs, we are able to provide a great majority of the program participants' daily nutritional needs at no cost to them. We are currently exceeding our target average of 80% occupancy and have several residents who are currently sober for from 90 days up to six months and two with 13 and 16 months. We are pleased with these results and are adding two more directors to increase support and insight into our day to day operation.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 75% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

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: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 47
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

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: 1.7%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.58; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -200% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -80.4% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
  • 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 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.