Reconciliation Associates Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 562588912
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Plymouth, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6123965311
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Counseling
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $398,540
- Expenses
- $465,977
- Assets
- $782,152
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- George Kenworthy (President)
People named in this filing
- Tammy Shade (Secretary)
- John Goodman (Treasurer)
- Mike Miller (Board chair)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Multiply healthy marriages and families. Impact marriages and families in crisis domestically and around the world. Equip pastors, marriage mentors, divorce attorneys, and students with resources so they can more effectively help couples, families and individuals enjoy more satisfying marriages, families and personal well-being
What it reported doing in 2024
1. Completed a "Playbook" workbook and 9 videos to help families and individuals achieve better emotional and interpersonal well-being 2. Received multiple testimonies from individuals who reported how the book Before the Last Resort restored their marriages or families 3. Offered pre-premarital counseling to multiple couples 4. Provided marriage and family counseling to multiple couples and families. 5. Completed our "Prepare to Give an Answer" workbook and 4 videos designed to help Christian families answer the deep questions about their conservative Christian faith. 6. Offered the "Prepare to Give an Answer" material pro bono to multiple churches and individuals. Appeared on national Christian cable TV program to share highlights from the "Prepare to Give an Answer" training. 7. Created a "Family Legacy" workbook to assist families in knowing better ways to teach their children how to pray, do bible study, how to have a family day and how to create meaningful celebrations and family days. 8. Offered "Hopeful Spouse" counseling to multiple couples. 9. Led multiple marriage and family seminars for Arab Christians in Bethlehem Israel 10. Led pro bono a Valentine's Day session on "How to Have a Communication Date" for a California chapter of the Divine Nine from Howard University
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 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 52
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 59.2%; rating input score 59
- Program expense ratio: 50.6%; rating input score 51
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.81 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -16.9%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.68; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.4% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 59.2% of revenue deployed · 50.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $236K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $215K reported
- Consistency: 39 of 39 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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: Mission deployment rate scored 59/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 51/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 21/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.