Renewal Retreats
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 261471237
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Nevada City, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4152984414
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $187,840
- Expenses
- $185,215
- Assets
- $29,060
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ellen C Walker (President)
- Ifeoma Ikenze (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Ellen C Walker (President)
- Ifeoma Ikenze (Vice President)
- Pat Newmann (Secretary/Treas)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Presentation of workshops and retreats to parents and children, couples and partners, young women and women with cancer to educate the participants on how to form healthy relationships and lead wholesome, integrated lives within their communities, Equine Guided Personal Growth & Wellness.
What it reported doing in 2025
Renewal Retreats held three 2-day events, a popular repeat program. Certain participants attended with no charge or at a discounted rate. The retreat was for people living with cancer: men, women, family, partners & friends. Participants learned tools for creating a healthy lifestyle in a supportive community of experts: guided imagery & movement for stress reduction, how to use and prepare a nutritious cancer-fighting culinary toolkit, the components of a well-balanced, safe & effective exercise program to optimize health, minimize symptoms and side effects. The workshop leaders were conducted by: Rebecca Katz, a nationally recognized chef and educator; Carol Augustus, mind-body consultant and coach; Patricia Newmann, a nationally recognized professional coach and group facilitator; Jillian Shay, cancer & exercise specialist. There were 4 workshops over the course of 2 days: 1) 30 participants; 2) 25 participants; 3) 21 participants
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.8%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 71.8%; rating input score 72
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.4%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.16; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.3% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 70.8% of revenue deployed · 71.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $133K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.