Redeem International
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 352674436
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Merrifield, VA, USA
- Phone
- 5715982592
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Relief
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,320,904
- Expenses
- $4,236,051
- Assets
- $2,187,431
- Liabilities
- $133,184
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jesse Rudy (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Jesse Rudy (CEO): $197,903 total reported compensation
- Greg Tarrant (Corporate Secretary/ Chief Operating Officer): $175,285 total reported compensation
- Jeff Atherstone (Chief Advancement Officer): $161,781 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Redeem's mission is to protect widows and orphans from violent abuse and exploitation.
What it reported doing in 2024
Redeem partnered with local law enforcement authorities to protect Ugandan widows and orphans from predatory eviction. Specifically, Redeem engaged in casework that restored families to their homes, restrained the criminals who were abusing them and rehabilitated survivors, providing investigative, legal and/or social services to 4,972 beneficiaries. This casework, coupled with Redeem's casework-informed capacity building and community engagement efforts, has the further benefit of creating a deterrent impact that reduces victimization and provides protection for the other widows and orphans in the community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 53
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.3%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 80.6%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.98 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- 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: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.52; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.6%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 52.5% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 37.5% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 27.9% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 79.3% of revenue deployed · 80.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $198K · 11 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and executive pay
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 34/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.