RISE Services, Inc.
Legal name: Rise Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 870454287
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Mesa, AZ, US
- Phone
- (480) 497-1889
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Developmentally Disabled Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $149,627,420
- Expenses
- $140,945,248
- Assets
- $96,283,832
- Liabilities
- $38,713,335
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOSHUA AUER (CEO & BOARD MEM)
- MARISSA PETTY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- GERALD NEBEKER (PRES& BOARD MEM): $3,387,761 total reported compensation
- JOSHUA AUER (CEO & BOARD MEM): $804,124 total reported compensation
- ARCHIE FITZGERALD (CFO): $507,828 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Creating opportunities for and with people.
What it reported doing in 2024
RISE provides community-based programs and support services for individualswith intellectual and developmental disabilities, behavioral health needs, and otherspecial needs. Services include residential and day programs, employment andhabilitation support, home and community-based care, foster care for children andadults, and services for seniors and individuals experiencing mental healthchallenges.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 96% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Accountability: 85
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.8%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 85.5%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 81.5%; rating input score 81; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 75%; rating input score 75; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.8%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.68; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.4; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.9%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 13 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 6 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 85.8% of revenue deployed · 85.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 8 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $120.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $3.4M · 17 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $9.2M reported
- Consistency: 38 of 39 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 16 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 12 filed related-organization links
- 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: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.