Resource Center for Women and Ministry in the South Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 591766535
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Durham, NC, USA
- Phone
- 9196831236
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $384,650
- Expenses
- $383,838
- Assets
- $279,724
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jeanette Stokes (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Chelsea Yarborough (Board member)
- Liddy Grantland (Board Member)
- Cris Rivera (Board treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide education and resources on women, creativity, spirituality, and social justice.
What it reported doing in 2025
Programs on women, religion, creativity, spirituality, and social justice, including classes, workshops, retreats, as well as printed and online resources and materials. Kindred Spirits: African American Quilters conference. In June 2025, African American quilters from across the country joined together in Durham, NC to explore African American quilting, network, and celebrate the legacy of Juneteenth. 50 participated in workshops and 600 viewed a pop-up quilt exhibition. Partnering with Cassilhaus, we sponsored a summer exhibition of quilts by three quilters: Jereann King Johnson, Sauda Zahra, and Kimberley Pierce Cartwright. In October 2025, we held Homegrown NC Women's Preaching Festival. 50 people attended this annual preaching festival. In an ecumenical spirit of love and collegiality, we lifted up the voices of local clergywomen (trans/cis) to encourage and inspire, share and learn, and hone their craft. Conference attendees heard wonderful preaching and share time for group conversations on the art of proclamation in all its forms. Queer Divinity Students Thriving in the South - a virtual, peer-supported cohort for queer religious leaders in training. Eight sessions provided support and new insights for the students who participated. We are in the process of making a documentary film about and artist/activist in Warren County, NC, Jereann King Johnson. We publish a quarterly newsletter, South of the Garden. In 2025, we published a book by Angie Wright, Learning of Love My Enemies & Other Outlandish Pursuits.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 84% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 87%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $23.4 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.2%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.73; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.8% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87% of revenue deployed · 87% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $334K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 16 of 16 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.