Reclamation and Restoration Ministries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 351974649
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Baton Rouge, LA, USA
- Phone
- 2252513609
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $119,867
- Expenses
- $119,867
- Assets
- $119,867
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANTHONY KELLEY (CHAIRMAN AND CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- YAVONYA KELLEY (FINANCIAL MANAGER): $15,000 total reported compensation
- ANTHONY KELLEY (CHAIRMAN AND CEO): $14,340 total reported compensation
- JEFFREY JOHNESE (COMM. ENGAGEMENT): $7,288 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
It is the mission of the Reclamation and Restoration Ministries, Inc., to promote social and community wholeness by actively developing and implementing relevant and life-changing ministries and programs that will prevent and/or deliver youth and adults from violence, crime, truancy, drug abuse, homelessness, and prison and to equip and/or restore them to lead responsible, meaningful, and productive lives.
What it reported doing in 2025
VIOLENCE INTERUPTION: The Ready4Life Project Community engagement street Team had high-risk interventions which resulted in very high-risk recruits, visited 840 residential homes and apartments and 61 faith-based organizations, distributed 8,095 promotional bags of materials, and attended 33 community collaborative events. The R4Life Project served 102 very high-risk and justice involved program participants (most of whom were referred to RRM by the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections (LDPS&C) Adult Division of Probation and Parole Reentry);1,004 nutritious meals; digital and financial literacy education; leadership development and employability training retreats; life skills and non-violence communications skills training; program supplies; personal protection equipment (PPE) for skilled trades vocational training; case management; and one-on-one and group mentoring services. 80% of the 1st cohort of program participants that enrolled in vocational training received NCCER Certification and 95% did not recidivate.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 97% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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.
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 voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Accountability: 28
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 59.3%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -59.6% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 139.8% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -76.1% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 5 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $120K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $15K · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 40 of 41 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 14 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.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.