RAHAB Ministries
Legal name: Reaching Above Hopelessness & Brokenness Ministries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 203285531
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2011
- Location
- Fairlawn, OH, US
- Phone
- 330-819-3326
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Protestant
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,957,261
- Expenses
- $1,787,611
- Assets
- $2,146,237
- Liabilities
- $117,077
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RICHARD KIKO (PRESIDENT)
- JAIME BLAIR (CEO (FORMER))
- SONYA R HARTBURG (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (CURRENT))
Highest reported compensation
- JAIME BLAIR (CEO (FORMER)): $36,949 total reported compensation
- SONYA R HARTBURG (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (CURRENT)): $11,442 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
RAHAB Ministries provides Christ-centered transformational services to those directly affected by sex trafficking. Below is our annual impact report looking back at the year 2025. For more information about any of our programs, which serve Northeast Ohio, please click here or contact us. Our deepest thanks to every donor, volunteer, and partner who contributes to this ministry – we couldn’t do it without you! For more information about any of our programs, which serve Northeast Ohio, please contact us. To view our annual impact report, looking back at the year 2025, please click here.
What it reported doing in 2024
Minor programming: rahab ministries provides mentoring services to youth who have been victimized by sex trafficking in four northeast Ohio counties, and community-based case management to a segment of enrolled youth and their families. Youth are referred by juvenile courts in summit and cuyahoga counties, service providers, and the public. Enrolled youth meet with a healthy trauma-informed adult mentor weekly at one of rahab's youth centers located in akron and cleveland or out in the community. Mentors take youth for fun activities to restore a sense of childhood that was stripped away by trafficking and to build healing relationships where mentors can help process trauma, encourage positive decision making, and build the youth's self-esteem. Youth and families enrolled in community-based case management have access to weekly mentoring and case management services to promote healing in-environment.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 67% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.2%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 75.9%; rating input score 76
- Fundraising efficiency: $14.68 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.7%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.2; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.7%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.8% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.5% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.6% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 70.2% of revenue deployed · 75.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $37K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 50/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 51/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 57/100.