No Longer Bound Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 581927695
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Cumming, GA, USA
- Phone
- 7708867873
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Addictive Disorders N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $11,721,121
- Expenses
- $10,589,615
- Assets
- $16,254,343
- Liabilities
- $6,000,551
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BEN TISON (CEO & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- BEN TISON (CEO & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $229,691 total reported compensation
- REBECCA CEDRONE (CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER): $153,787 total reported compensation
- BRUNO SURDO (DEVELOPMENT OFFICER): $114,260 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
No longer bound exists to transform lives beyond sobriety by guiding men and their families through a year-long, christ-centered program that creates purpose, hope and healing.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, no longer bound served 128 men in our residential addiction treatment program, providing evidence-based therapies, individual and group counseling, weekly family and marriage counseling, case management, vocational training, and job placement. One hundred percent of residents were employed at completion of their program. Vocational training tracks include culinary training, landscaping, auto mechanic training, digital marketing, and project management. Family and marriage counseling included individual, family and marriage counseling as well as weekly support groups. No longer bound thrift and no longer bound cars covered 100% of the organization's administrative costs while also distributing clothing and automobiles to people in need.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 87% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 93% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.6%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 88.4%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $14.46 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th 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: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.7%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.53; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.37; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.7%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.5% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.9% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 91.6% of revenue deployed · 88.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $9.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $230K · 16 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 45/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 52/100.