Relief Nursery Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 930784800
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Eugene, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5413439706
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $8,318,724
- Expenses
- $7,772,799
- Assets
- $12,861,197
- Liabilities
- $1,144,971
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
34 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SUTHERLAND KELLY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- PERLOW PATTY (PRESIDENT)
- PICKETT JULIE (PRESIDENT ELECT)
- WILLIAMS KIM (PAST PRESIDENT)
- ACOSTA KATE (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- SUTHERLAND KELLY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $147,217 total reported compensation
- CATHERINE FISHER (FINANCE DIRECTOR): $130,534 total reported compensation
- BROWN RAY (PROGRAM DIRECTOR): $118,033 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Relief nursery prevents the cycle of child abuse and neglect through early intervention that focuses on building successful and resilient children, strengthening parents, and preserving families.
What it reported doing in 2024
Therapeutic early childhood program provides a unique combination of individualized classroom and home-based developmental experiences for children newborn to six years of age. All aspects of the program focus on the specific issues of children from multi-stressed families who have experienced trauma, abuse, and/or stress, or are at risk for such experiences. Multiple features contribute to the therapeutic nature of this program and its effectiveness in preventing child abuse and neglect. The curriculum and environment provided at relief nursery support the individual needs of each child. Teachers, specialists, and parents work together to establish individual goals for each child. The therapeutic classroom is part of a larger system providing comprehensive, ameliorating services to both child and family. To provide continuity between school and home, the child's classroom teacher is also the family's home visitor, helping to enhance parenting skills, promoting parent-child relationships, and creating a healthy and nurturing home environment. In this program, the focus is on the social and emotional development. There is a low ratio of adults to children in the classrooms.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 63% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75.3%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 77.8%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: $12.12 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
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: Limited
- 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: 6.6%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.65; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.4%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 75.3% of revenue deployed · 77.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 23 of 23 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $147K · 34 people listed
- Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 44/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 32/100.