Recovery Refuge
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 872865014
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Hendersonville, TN, USA
- Phone
- 6159240699
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $193,757
- Expenses
- $179,269
- Assets
- $24,252
- Liabilities
- $7,485
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ADAM FRENCH (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- CHARLES VINCENT (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ADAM FRENCH (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $89,295 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Through relational discipleship, soul care counseling, and much more we teach men to establish their identity in christ, their life around scripture, and their emotional and spiritual health in the promises of god. Helping them to establish strong accountability and a healthy community ready to receive them upon their return. We do this through a healthy partnership with their sending church, local mentors, and recovery meetings across sumner county.
What it reported doing in 2025
Religious drug counseling for men
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 47% for direct work, and 53% for member benefits.
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 revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 52
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.4%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 94.5%; rating input score 94
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 23rd 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: 7.5%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.14; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.31; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 49.8%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 48.8% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.8% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -56.7% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.4% of revenue deployed · 94.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 5 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $169K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $89K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.