Radical Rest

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
990648117
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Salem, OR, USA
Phone
7347178358
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Support N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,424
Expenses
$135,243
Assets
$346
Liabilities
$10,193

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

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

People named in this filing

  • T Aisha Edwards (Vision Director)
  • Amy Ruff (Secretary)
  • Emma Rickman (Treasurer)

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

Radical Rest provides communal trauma healing experiences and education to Black, Indigenous and Peoples of Color (BIPOC) folks in the Portland Metro Area. Radical Rest uplifts access to healing for Portland area black and brown communities with free to low cost communal healing events led by BIPOC healer-facilitators who center healing justice. Radical Rest uses the principles of somatics, experiential learning and trauma-informed practices to provide trauma healing spaces that reduce isolation, build resilience, expand knowledge of ancestral and healthful life practices and grow trust in self, others and the natural world. We encourage structural change in wellness work through fostering trust in oneself and the collective, through contemplation and embodiment and, of course, through rest.

What it reported doing in 2025

Village Lab Salon - Village Lab Salon is an in-person wellness workshop series that utilizes experiential education and exercises, trauma-informed somatics, and Theater of the Oppressed approaches to center care, witnessing, reciprocal support, skill sharing, spiritual vibrancy, uplift, and communal resilience. In 2025, VLS had 182 attendees. Overall, our program conducted events serving a total of 182 unique individuals, with 92% of the people served being BIPOC (based on racial demographics provided). The demographics of those served included 24% Black, 25% Latinx, 18% multiracial, 23% Pacific Islander/Indigenous, 13% Asian, 8% SWANA, and 6% immigrants. Additionally, 47% of those served were queer, trans non-binary, or two-spirit LGBTQIA+, 21% were disabled or had a chronic illness, and 38% had an income under $45,000 annually. Age demographics included 15% ages 18-30, 38% ages 31-45, 12% ages 46-60, and 2% ages 61-80

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% 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.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 83
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 3
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 53.7%; rating input score 54

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -5,479.3%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 29.46; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 24.8%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 80.1% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -192.5% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -198.9% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 53.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $73K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 54/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.