Recovering from Religion
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 454000021
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Kansas City, KS, USA
- Phone
- 0000000000
- Rating
- 56
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $162,132
- Expenses
- $111,122
- Assets
- $142,419
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Darrel Ray (President)
- Gayle Jordan (Executive Director)
- Rachel Hunt (Board Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Darrel Ray (President)
- Gayle Jordan (Executive Director)
- Kara Griffin (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Recovering from Religion is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing multi-platform support and resources to people leaving their religion. Our mission is to provide hope, healing, and support to those who have been harmed by religion. The RfR mission is to offer hope, healing, and support to those struggling with issues of doubt and non-belief. Learning how to live with questions, doubts, and changing beliefs is a journey. We at Recovering from Religion are intimately familiar with this path, and we are here to help you. Our passion is connecting people with support, resources, community, and most of all, hope. LGBTQIA+ Inclusivity Flag. Our passion is connecting people with support, resources...
What it reported doing in 2024
The Fall Excursion is a weekend-long intensive program to help people learn about forming healthy relationships and pursuing happiness without religion in its entirety or within their changed belief structure Meals and lodging are included The program workshops and events are led by both peer support volunteers and licensed mental health professionals 85 clients and volunteers including volunteer workers and speakers attended the Fall Excursion The program was held from Friday evening to Sunday morning and included workshops on Identifying Values Religious Trauma and Sexual Identity a musical performance and a song writers workshop and healing through movement and dance Other activities included guided meditation sessions support group meetings games and outdoor activities a guided nature hike bonfire and Karaoke as well as childrens programming
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 89% 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
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: 29
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 70
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 25.4%; rating input score 25
- Program expense ratio: 35%; rating input score 35
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 31.5%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.28; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 21.6%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.8% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.4% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.9% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 25.4% of revenue deployed · 35% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 7 filed program accomplishments · $39K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 25/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.