Refugee and Immigrant Services & Education
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 821779829
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2021, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Joplin, MO, USA
- Phone
- 8137742973
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Ethnic, Immigrant Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,604,763
- Expenses
- $3,203,913
- Assets
- $639,859
- Liabilities
- $265,738
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRIAN GIBSON (PRESIDENT)
- MIKE NEWMAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- MIKE NEWMAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $100,634 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Refugee and immigrant services & education (raise) seeks to increase the quality of life and health opportunities and build a stronger community that breaks the barriers of people groups and cultural differences. Refugee and immigrant services & education (raise) seeks to increase the quality of life and health opportunities and build a stronger community that breaks the barriers of people groups and cultural differences. Raise provides joplin area refugees and immigrants the tools they need to be successful in the united states. Raise provides resettlement services for refugees in the joplin mo metro area, care partner network facilitation in mcdonald and newton counties in Missouri, and refugee support services for existing refugees and newly arriving refugees in sw Missouri.
What it reported doing in 2024
Raise collaboratively provides resettlement services and education to refugees and legal immigrants in the joplin community. We help our new arrivals along their path to self-sufficiency and community integration.raise works to create a thriving integrated community in southwest Missouri where all people belong and live abundantly. Our dedicated staff and volunteer network provide joplin-area refugees and immigrants with the tools they need to be successful in the united states incluidng housing services, job readiness training and employment support, and english language education.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 97% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 66% for direct work, and 34% for grants.
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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.1%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 86.7%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $184.48 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.1%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.2; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.42; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.1%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 50.8% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 69.1% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 89.9% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 77.1% of revenue deployed · 86.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $101K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 29 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.