Recovery Works

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
262861495
IRS 990 coverage
2012–2014
Forms available
Form 990 2014, Form 990-EZ 2011, Form 990-N 2008
Location
Ridge Spring, SC, USA
Rating
82
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Alcohol, Drug Abuse, Treatment Only

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$209,154
Expenses
$208,497
Assets
$59,739
Liabilities
$276

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2014. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

1 person listed

Highest reported compensation

  • FLINT THOMAS (DIRECTOR): $11,760 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2014. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Recovery works is a residential recovery facility for men with alcohol and drug addiction. The program helps each person grow from a troubled life of alcohol and drug addiction into a life that is ordinary, productive, reasonably happy and serene in the real world.

What it reported doing in 2014

Recovery works is a 24 bed residential recovery facility for men with alcohol and drug addiction. Our program helps each person grow from a troubled life of addiction into a life that most take for granted, ordinary, productive, reasonable happy and serene in the real world. It is based on the 12 step recovery program of alcoholics anonymous and narcotics anonymous. It is a simple but profound program that emphasizes out powerlessness over addiction. The program involves a structured, disipline lifestyle of early rising, cleanliness and acceptance of responsibility for one's actions. The program is an enviroment designed to cultivate sobriety one day at a time. During 2014 year there were 68 residents that attended the program and 37 completed and stayed sober and are currently still free of substances and working.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 63% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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

STRONG - 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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 84
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 84
  • Sustainability: 37
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 94.5%; rating input score 95
  • Program expense ratio: 93.6%; rating input score 94
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 0.3%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.29; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 5.6%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -54.9% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 8.5% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -6.7% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 94.5% of revenue deployed · 93.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 2 of 2 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $195K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $12K · 1 people listed
  • Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2012 to 2014
  • 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.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 39/100.