Raise and Release Ministries
Legal name: Raise & Release Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 843404321
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Surf City, NC, USA
- Rating
- 51
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Interfaith Coalitions
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $101,225
- Expenses
- $108,081
- Assets
- $30,488
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Anthony Festa Jr (President)
- Sidney Gabriel Tew Jr (Vice-President and Director)
People named in this filing
- Anthony Festa Jr (President)
- Sidney Gabriel Tew Jr (Vice-President and Director)
- Sherrie Pruitt (Treasurer and 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
Raise and Release Ministries is an international movement of Christians from many denominations dedicated to presenting Jesus personally to this and future generations, to mobilizing as many as possible to help in this task, and to the training and equipping of believers for their part in fulfilling “The Great Commission.”
What it reported doing in 2025
Food pantry established in Kallary Kausay Ecuador where families receive monthly food and cleaning supplies.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
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: 24
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 24.2%; rating input score 24
- Program expense ratio: 22.7%; rating input score 23
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6.8%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.28; rating input score 25; 25th 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: 43.4% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 24.8% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 25.8% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 24.2% of revenue deployed · 22.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $24K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2019 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 24/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.