Recovery Alive Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
872049283
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Smithfield, NC, USA
Phone
9196315416
Rating
69
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Christianity
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$745,719
Expenses
$720,332
Assets
$178,032
Liabilities
$1,992

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • John Eklund (CEO AND NATIONAL DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • Tisha Temple (NATIONAL OUTREACH DIRECTOR): $70,541 total reported compensation
  • John Eklund (CEO AND NATIONAL DIRECTOR): $25,084 total reported compensation
  • Casey Temple (Operations Director): $18,541 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Recovery Alive is a church revolution inspiring community revival through personal recovery. Recovery Alive Inc. now has approximately 120 dedicated volunteers working directly with the nonprofit side of the organization. Together, we are launching new ministry startups and opening new RA Homes to bring hope, healing, and transformation to even more lives.

What it reported doing in 2024

Recovery Alive Homes By the close of 2024, Recovery Alive Homes has successfully opened and is operating six fully active homes across North Carolina, West Virginia, and Alabama. Each home provides a safe, structured, and Christ-centered environment where individuals in recovery can heal, rebuild, and pursue a new way of life. Our homes are intentionally designed to serve individuals coming directly from treatment centers, jails, prisons, and other critical transition points providing an essential bridge to long-term recovery, community reintegration, and personal transformation. Each home operates under a model of community accountability, faith-based recovery principles, and peer leadership. Residents participate in Recovery Alives structured 12-step program, engage in life-skills development, attend local church services, and are supported by trained mentors and staff who walk alongside them in their recovery journey.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 90% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 63% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 67
  • Transparency & Controls: 80
  • Accountability: 63
  • Sustainability: 36
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 73.8%; rating input score 74
  • Program expense ratio: 70.8%; rating input score 71
  • Fundraising efficiency: $5.69 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 84.6%; rating input score 85; 2nd 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: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 3.4%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.25; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 15.8%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 71.7% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 35.5% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -16.9% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 73.8% of revenue deployed · 70.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $510K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $71K · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 25 of 26 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 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.

  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 21/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule G fundraiser detail did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.