ReWork Richmond Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
825083689
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Richmond, VA, USA
Phone
8044479026
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Job Training

Reported finances

Revenue
$486,421
Expenses
$450,610
Assets
$881,944
Liabilities
$28,916

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

Leadership & pay

15 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Deb Lawrence (Executive Director)

Highest reported compensation

  • Deb Lawrence (Executive Director): $101,043 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Our mission is to empower underemployed adults living in Richmond's East End to obtain the skills and necessary support to qualify for and ultimately gain thriving careers. Our commitment is to partner with each participant until they are employed in a job that supports their families, as long as it takes to get there. Our goal is to help participants and their families navigate the pathway out of poverty and the social and economic structures that keep them from realizing their potential.

What it reported doing in 2025

In 2025, we served 108 adults who were enrolled as participants in the ReWork Richmond accessing the full suite of ReWork supports. These 108 adults represent over 200 unduplicated individuals when we consider the family unites that the 108 adults support. Utilizing our comprehensive approach, we connected 25 to new employment. Education is also a necessary step on many participants' pathway to a thriving career. We helped five participants enroll in various certifications or education courses and associates level programs. A major component of our approach is utilizing our extensive volunteer network to provide participants with meaningful support as they work on employment. Our volunteers act as career coaches, mentors, resume writers, and tutors. Each participant is also paired with a ReWork financial coach who they meet with quarterly to develop a budgeting strategy that works in tandem with their employment plan. Our network includes 50+ volunteers, 30 of which are regularly engaged. We are ReWork Richmond recognize that in order to focus strategically on employment, there needs to be an element of stability around transportation, childcare, and housing. Our staff worked closely with our partners in those fields to connect participants to wrap-around supports that keep them on track towards a thriving career.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 98% 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 a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 66
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 79
  • Sustainability: 47
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 69.3%; rating input score 69
  • Program expense ratio: 74.1%; rating input score 74
  • Fundraising efficiency: $6.65 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 27; 27th 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: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • 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: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 7.4%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.96; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 22.4%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 18.9% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 69.3% of revenue deployed · 74.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $334K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $101K · 15 people listed
  • Consistency: 27 of 27 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: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 27/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.