ReUnite Ministries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 800283910
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2023
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2023
- Location
- Maryville, TN, USA
- Phone
- 8659849200
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $413
- Expenses
- $291,316
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RUSSELL HEPPERLY (PRESIDENT)
- STEPHEN HEPPERLY (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- RUSSELL HEPPERLY (PRESIDENT)
- STEPHEN HEPPERLY (VICE PRESIDENT)
- CHESTER RICHARDSON (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
ReUnite is a residential counseling center aimed at redeeming mothers and reuniting them with children they have lost to court-ordered foster care. Through Christian-based counseling, life-skills training, parenting classes, and mentoring, ReUnite helps mothers permanently end the destructive cycles that contributed to their children's removal.
What it reported doing in 2023
ReUnite Ministries program accomplishments include taking in and providing support to mothers who have lost custody of their children. Through individualized Christian-based counseling, life-skills training, parenting classes, and mentoring, the organization works to help mothers permanently end the destructive cycles that contributed to their children's removal in the first place. ReUnite also works through the entire process with mothers with the end goal of reuniting them with children they have lost to court-ordered foster or kinship care.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 97% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 7
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -70,436.6%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 36.2% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -11.4% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.2% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $291K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2017 to 2023
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.