Restoreforlife
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 844698109
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Syracuse, NY, USA
- Rating
- 52
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $23,663
- Expenses
- $54,249
- Assets
- $23,371
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
People named in this filing
- Pamela Bussey (Mssion Coordinator)
- Iris Williams (Instructor)
- Branden Meyer (Instructor)
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
Restoreforlife Inc. strengthens kinship caregivers youth and families through arts-based healing advocacy education and navigation to community resources helping them build skills stability and voice while reducing unnecessary child-welfare system involvement.
What it reported doing in 2025
R.E.A.L. Fellowship advocacy & leadership12-week fellowship teaching family rights advocacy and data literacy; weekly 3-hour sessions with a Town Hall presentation to community stakeholders. Persons benefited: 24 fellows. Expenses: $6,474. Grants included: $6,474 participant stipends aid to individuals.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Transfer-based 990-EZ. The 990-EZ reports grants or member benefits, but it does not separate enough spending to show the nonprofit’s full delivery mix.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 23
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 12
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 36.9%; rating input score 37
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -129.3%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.43; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 20.1%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -100.7% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -74.5% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 36.9% of revenue deployed
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 37/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.