Restoration Outreach Programs

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
800001215
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Aurora, CO, USA
Phone
7208592513
Rating
70
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Delinquency Prevention

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$672,908
Expenses
$494,258
Assets
$3,221,782
Liabilities
$2,217,130

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Mary Tellis (Executive Director)

Highest reported compensation

  • Mary Tellis (Executive Director): $85,847 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Restoration Outreach Programs provides services to homeless, disadvantaged and at-risk individuals and youth, including a food bank, GED training, ESL teaching, after-school tutoring and group youth mentoring programs. ROP provides direct services to address hunger, homelessness, lack of education, underemployment, language barriers, addictions, and hopelessness.

What it reported doing in 2025

The Work Readiness/GED Ministry strives to enhance employability of those within the community we serve. We provide tutoring to prepare students for the high school equivalency test (GED or HiSet), assist participants in creating effective resumes, train in effective interview techniques, and help participants develop soft skills that employers seek in potential candidates. Work Readiness helps individuals with job retention, mentoring, and assigning accountability partners, and provides life coaching and life skills. Our ESL Program offers free English classes in Aurora to the refugee and immigrant population, in the surrounding neighborhoods of ROP, to help them overcome the language barriers they face living in the United States. Interested participants are assessed on their current English skills and then placed into one of our four class levels (Basic, Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3). Each class meets twice a week for two hours and students work on English proficiency in speaking, listening, reading, and writing.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 86% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 58
  • Transparency & Controls: 86
  • Accountability: 83
  • Sustainability: 66
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 52.4%; rating input score 52
  • Program expense ratio: 69.4%; rating input score 69
  • Fundraising efficiency: $18.57 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 22nd 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: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • 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: 26.5%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.52; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.69; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 17.4%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -5.1% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -2.4% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 32.5% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 52.4% of revenue deployed · 69.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 8 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $343K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $86K · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 30 of 31 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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: Mission deployment rate scored 52/100.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 53/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 8/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.