Renewing American Leadership

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
263040603
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2011
Forms available
Form 990 2011, Form 990-N 2008
Location
Washington, DC, USA
Phone
2022892114
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Leadership Development
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,364,354
Expenses
$1,352,222
Assets
$20,883
Liabilities
$2,057

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2011. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2011. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The mission of Renewing American Leadership is to preserve America's Judeo-Christian heritage by defending and promoting the four pillars of American civilization: faith, family, freedom, and free enterprise. We are dedicated to educating, organizing, training and mobilizing people of faith to renew American self-government and America's role in the world.

What it reported doing in 2011

Educational Service Accomplishments: In keeping with our faith, family, freedom, and free enterprise-four pronged emphasis, ReAL was involved in events and activities that were committed to defend public expressions of the Christian faith, articulate the value of the traditional definition of marriage and the family, advocate for freedom - particularly religious liberty - and make the biblical case for free enterprise, and dangers of excessive national debt. Consequently, the persons working with ReAL were involved in public speaking at many events, particularly pastors conferences and Christian gatherings, with the goal of educating, organizing, motivating and encouraging pastors and Christian leaders. In addition ReAL personnel maintained a website, wrote essays, posted book reviews and videos, did interviews, wrote emails to our supporters, hosted conference calls and webinars, wrote articles and generally advocated for the above values. ReAL, in cooperation with the Alliance Defending Freedom (formerly Alliance Defense Fund) promoted Pulpit Freedom Sunday, which is a project designed to affirm pastors to speak freely from their pulpits on biblical application to all issues, personal, family, church, local and national. ReAL focused specifically on such issues as the sanctity of life, the sacredness of marriage, religious liberty, biblical economic principles (the concerns of excessive national debt, free enterprise, etc.) and general application of biblical principles to family, community and national life. In conjunction with that, ReAL networked with other like minded fiscally conservative educational organizations in Washington, DC and beyond involved in advocating for fiscal responsibility which shared a like minded view that a nation should not expend more than received revenues, helping Christian leaders and others to understand the value of a balanced budget amendment. ReAL was only one of several Christian organizations contending that such things as a balanced budget, controlled borrowing and free enterprise are, in fact, biblical issues. ReAL endeavored to educate pastors and their laity regarding the biblical presuppositions of a balanced budget amendment, excessive national debt, encouraging pastors to become aware of resources to help them understand scriptural economic principles.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 74
  • Accountability: 67
  • Sustainability: 29
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • 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: 0.9%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.02; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 20%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -78.7% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -55% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 2 of 3 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $842K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $104K · 7 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed
  • Consistency: 38 of 38 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2010 to 2011
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 3 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 44/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 56/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.