Relief Resources Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 522323151
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Lakewood, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 7184319501
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,719,165
- Expenses
- $4,899,029
- Assets
- $1,847,678
- Liabilities
- $2,014,900
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ALEXANDER ORNSTEIN (President)
Highest reported compensation
- BENJAMIN BABAD (PROGRAM DIRECTO): $423,273 total reported compensation
- DAVID KESSNER (DIRECTOR OF OPERATION): $173,767 total reported compensation
- ELI KOFMAN (DIRECTOR): $170,300 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 Resources is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the community in overcoming the broad range of conditions related to mental illness, by providing a comprehensive resource of vetted professionals, referred according to the needs of the individual, while compassionately guiding them along the process.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 81% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 91% 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 the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 72
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 16
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.3%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 81.2%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $12.14 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- 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: 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: -3.8%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.38; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.09; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 21.6%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.4% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.8% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 84.3% of revenue deployed · 81.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $423K · 10 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 27 of 28 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 44/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.