Resurrection Center at Christ Cathedral

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
992254615
IRS 990 coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Garden Grove, CA, USA
Phone
7142823000
Rating
64
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$3,150,101
Expenses
$153,913
Assets
$3,395,693
Liabilities
$299,505

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • TERRENCE MCGAUGHAN (PRESIDENT AND BOARD CHAIR)
  • PATRICK POWERS (VICE PRESIDENT AND BOARD VICE CHAIR)

People named in this filing

  • TERRENCE MCGAUGHAN (PRESIDENT AND BOARD CHAIR)
  • PATRICK POWERS (VICE PRESIDENT AND BOARD VICE CHAIR)
  • WILLIAM BAKER (SECRETARY)

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

The organization seeks to promote and advance the catholic faith by providing funding and support for the investigation, research, public display, and scientific investigations of the shroud of turin, the resurrection, and the real presence of christ in the eucharist.

What it reported doing in 2025

The organization provides spiritual and educational programs related to the shroud of turin-centered at the cultural center at christ cathedral. The organization may also receive charitable gifts, bequests, and contributions of any kind and hold, invest, administer, and use such assets in furtherance of the organization's religious purposes.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 96% 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

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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 29
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 88
  • Sustainability: 91
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 3.9%; rating input score 4
  • Program expense ratio: 80%; rating input score 80
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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; 63rd 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: 95.1%; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 22.06; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 187.7% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 197.1% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 3.9% of revenue deployed · 80% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $123K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 4/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 50/100.